... Crang and Goodwin as: "...[ensuring] the geographical preoccupation with spatiality is complemented by an attention to temporality" (Cloke, Crang and Goodwin, 2002) In addition historical geographers are not merely concerned with the past per se but in Historicity - that is, historical specificity, and historical transformation (Cloke, Crang and Goodwin, 2002). The map is clearly an example of transformation or more appropriately, development, though both terms have similarities as they reflect change. Specifically this example map would be of interest to urban historical geographers as their field is that of the past development of settlements. Historical geography is linked intrinsically to both social and cultural geography, because the geographies of the past have affected current concepts in both. For example from a recent edition of the Journal of Historical Geography, the concept of social inclusion can be seen in the 'model village' of Bournville which: "...was the first model settlement to provide...housing not restricted to ...

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