Home range and habitat: Using platial characteristics to define urban areas from the bottom up

The spatial representation of a city is typically formed by top‐down jurisdictional boundaries. A parallel approach would be to consider representing a city based on platial characteristics, that is, a bottom‐up landscape created through individual and collectively derived representations. This study contributes to this discourse through the exploratory examination of the ecology notions of home range and habitat applied to humans in an urban context. Using spatial data collected through a WebGIS platform, we employ a spatial definition of sense of place and social capital to understand the platial nature of the city and, simultaneously, defining home range and habitat as platial notions. We found spatial variability among individual home range and habitat and the difficulty of traditional administrative boundaries to represent these areas. This research defines and presents home range and habitat to partially describe the emergent nature of platial theory and explores their operationalization at the urban level.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Trans. GIS

• Publication date

  2019-11-20

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Geography, Computer Science, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/tgis.12597
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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