The main aim of the chapter is to analyze the preserved forms of the Josephine villages in the area of former Galicia. After a short introduction concerning legal aspects of delimitation of new villages, the newly created forms of settlements were interpreted. The analyses covered the following forms: street-type villages (including streetplane) an...
This paper begins by looking at the concept of “social space” as a constructive, comprehensive, and interpretive key to the whole of Henri Lefebvre’s work. Therefore, it sets forth the genealogy of the Lefebvre’s project of “spatiology” (or analysis of the social production of social space) and its importance for contemporary critical thinking. At ...
This text considers labor as a relevant record of human presence in landscapes. Energy expenditure and human effort, as well as intentions and power relations among people, leave marks on the landscape. We present the results of field research realized in diverse areas of the Southeast region of Brazil, in the Atlantic Forest biome. We highlight th...
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The study attempts to systematize the leading transformations observed nowadays in denominational cemeteries located in Poland. The time frame of the analyses was limited to the period from the end of the Second World War to the present. Four basic types of transformations have been distinguished and divided into two main directions of changes repo...
En France, après l’effacement des provinces au temps d’une royauté devenue absolue, l’importance du fait régional a mis du temps à émerger pour enfin se concrétiser avec la régionalisa-tion de 1982. Depuis, de nombreux textes législatifs ont modifié les compétences des régions et la façon dont elles peuvent les exercer. En outre, une diminution dra...
The article presents the results of research devoted to the morphogenesis and evolution of the rural structure of the village of Wielenin in Uniejów commune. The historical-geographical analysis also includes the identification of the relics of older spatial structures of settlement in the contemporary cultural landscape. For the purpose of this st...
The article presents the results of research on the process of manor land parcelling and abolition of easement, which took place in the interwar period. A detailed analysis based on archival queries covers two settlement units located in the area of the contemporary Szadek commune: the villages of Boczki and Rzepiszew. The first part of the article...
Published in Polish Cartographical Review
The aim of the author is to present the methodology of reconstruction of the Old-Polish transport network as exemplified by the historic Lublin Voivodship. The author discusses the research method and procedure of reconstructing the road routes and locations of transport facilities on the basis of text sources and old maps of varied content and geo...
Political and cultural geographers are increasingly engaging with the political aspects of play. This "ludic geopolitics" is often studied through video games, particularly war games which place the player in virtual battlefields and reproduce geopolitical discourses. But this work is ahistorical; it has overlooked the contributions that board game...
