Toward spatially integrated social science

This article outlines the motivation for a spatial approach as a novel focu s for cross-disciplinary interaction and research in the social and behavio ral sciences. The authors review the emerging interest in space and place i n the recent social science literature and develop a vision for a spatially integrated social science. This vision provides the conceptual basis for a program of six activities designed to promote a spatial perspective: learn ing resources, workshops, best-practice examples, place-based search, softw are tools, and a virtual community The sin programs will be informed by adv ances in the methods, technologies and principles underlying spatial inform ation science.