This dissertation studies a set of public housing estates in Porto developed in the period surrounding the Portuguese revolution, part of which have rarely been examined in architectural research. In doing so, it seeks to provide a global reading of this period that may represen…
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A fundamental principle underpinning conservation is to evaluate the condition of native vegetation relative to a reference state. Many ecological applications require vegetation condition as a spatially-explicit continuous map layer that covers broad landscape-scaled extents. T…
This dissertation is a study of Ottoman expansion in the Indian Ocean, beginning with Sultan Selim the Grim's conquest of Egypt in 1517, and ending with the corsair Mir Ali Beg's last naval expedition to the Swahili Coast in 1589. The aim of my research is to create a coherent n…
This thesis explores how our notion of mapness is related to our knowledge, reading and understanding of the complex visual language of the map, through an investigation of how we relate to the way maps look and the structures that underpin them.The processes of creating map-lik…
Maps are cultural texts that can be studied for how the cultures represented distinguish one type of space from another. Over 300 maps that emphasise religious space, with particular emphasis on heretical space, will guide this study, which focuses on the lands of Spain during t…
The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Europe were a period of heightened European anxiety over the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire. The successful incursion of the Ottomans into the West posed a viable threat to the borders of Europe. Previous scholarship on early modern images…
This project explores why the combination of cartography and drama is so explosive on the English Renaissance stage in the age of the “new geography.” Using poststructuralist theories that conceptualize maps as performances rather than inert representations, I argue for a more d…
Popular narratives and public history institutions purposefully or incidentally erase Native contributions to Tennessee’s geography. However, the settlement and mapping of Tennessee was built on Native precedents. White settlers followed Native settlement patterns and early Tenn…
Data assimilation in subsurface systems is challenging due to the large number of flow simulations often required, and by the need to preserve geological realism in the calibrated (posterior) models. In this work we present a deep-learning-based surrogate-modeling framework, ref…
“Woven World: The Creation Tapestry of Girona” interrogates the function and meaning of the medieval map. Works of art like the eleventh-century Creation Tapestry of Girona, Spain redefine our modern definition of the word “map.” Medieval artists, like the exegetes of the time, …
The following study examines how aspects of Safavid Persia are portrayed in the work of Adam Olearius, the German Baroque scholar who accompanied an economic expedition sent by the small northern German duchy of Holstein-Gottorf to Persia from 1635-39. Olearius's early modern tr…