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Williams, Kate Smith, Linda Matkovszki, Ilona 2017-03-01T17:02:11Z 2017-03-01T17:02:11Z 2019-03-02T10:15:30Z 2016-12-09 2016-12 Maps have long been used for visualizing and studying urban spatial information. For the early phases of urban development in most cities, however, there are usually few maps due to the high cost of map making. These temporarily widely spaced early city maps document the evolution of cities as a series of “slides” frozen at particular points in time and provide no information on the smaller-scale, gradual changes that had occurred over time and had ultimately produced the spatial configurations we see on historic maps. This shortcoming severely limits the utility of historic city maps as information sources both for the visual documentation and for the investigation of early urban spatial history. This thesis introduces a novel method and conceptual framework for visualizing and querying information on early modern urban evolution in the United States using an alternative form of mapping in the digital environment, which corrects this shortcoming and substantially enhances access to information on urban spatial history. The thesis demonstrates the practical application of the new method using the early history of the City of Urbana, Illinois as working model. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-12-01 The student, Ilona Matkovszki, accepted the attached license on 2016-12-08 at 12:06. The student, Ilona Matkovszki, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-12-08 at 12:37. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-12-09 at 08:46. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10489 on 2017-02-28 at 14:43:25 Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-01T17:02:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 MATKOVSZKI-THESIS-2016.pdf: 104995763 bytes, checksum: f2d922c1caa23a1f26c15dffa6214398 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4213 bytes, checksum: 263d620505f9f338fcacf85f18f3ed22 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-09 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 98741 Lift date: 2019-03-01T17:02:22Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 98741 Lift date: 2019-03-01T17:03:32Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 98741 Lift date: 2019-03-01T17:05:02Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 98741 Lift date: 2019-03-01T17:06:55Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 98741 on 2019-03-02T10:15:30Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/95625 en Copyright 2016 Ilona Matkovszki Digital humanities Urban spatial history Retromapping: conceptual outline of a novel method for visualizing and exploring urban spatial evolution in the digital environment text text Information Sciences Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.