Beijing temples and their social matrix – A GIS reconstruction of the 1912–1937 social scape

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Peiyao, LIN, Hui, CHITTY, Naren, CAO, Kai
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Spatial disparity; Chinese temples; standard deviational ellipse; geographically weighted regression; RepublicanBeijing; Asian Studies; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5454; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6457&context=sis_research
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper reconstructs the spatial phenomena of Chinese temples in Beijing city during the Republican period (1912–1937). The research that informs the reconstruction is based on a Republican Beijing GIS data set that is focused on the transition of urban culture at that time. Spatial analytical me...