The visualization of spatial social structure means, literally, trying to make visible the geographical patterns to the way our lives have come to be socially organized. It is about seeing the geography in society. Visualization often implies using data. More widely defined it implies freeing our imaginations.
It shows how modern computer graphics can be used to look back on the 1971 and 1981 censuses, and the polarization of the UK which was underway in the 1980s and which explains so much of life in Britain today.
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