The identity of urban space is built thanks to complex sedimentation of antithetic phenomena. On the one hand, the planned activities of politicians, planners and architects aimed to design both the spatial and the social structure of a community. On the other side, it is the results of a human appropriation that dynamically changes and overwrites the built images. At the same time in the historical evolution of a city is an intertwinement both public and private, collective and individual lives. Historical maps together with the official and spontaneous production of multimodal artifacts connected with space – such as paintings, sketches, photographs, and so on – are valuable tools to tell the story and the urban evolution of a place. Furthermore, digital technologies and the possibility of geo-referencing documents offer a common platform to share knowledge and historical insights. The paper proposes and discusses a critical review of the most recent approaches and best practices in the field of historical-visual representation of digitised documental sources contextualized in the evolution both historical and cartographic of a territory.

Bollini, L. (2019). Geo-graphica. The visual representation of urban identity evolution: maps and visual artefacts as historical knowledge machines.. In G. Pellegri (a cura di), De-sign Environmental Landscape City 2019. Genova : Genova University Press.

Geo-graphica. The visual representation of urban identity evolution: maps and visual artefacts as historical knowledge machines.

Bollini, L
2019

Abstract

The identity of urban space is built thanks to complex sedimentation of antithetic phenomena. On the one hand, the planned activities of politicians, planners and architects aimed to design both the spatial and the social structure of a community. On the other side, it is the results of a human appropriation that dynamically changes and overwrites the built images. At the same time in the historical evolution of a city is an intertwinement both public and private, collective and individual lives. Historical maps together with the official and spontaneous production of multimodal artifacts connected with space – such as paintings, sketches, photographs, and so on – are valuable tools to tell the story and the urban evolution of a place. Furthermore, digital technologies and the possibility of geo-referencing documents offer a common platform to share knowledge and historical insights. The paper proposes and discusses a critical review of the most recent approaches and best practices in the field of historical-visual representation of digitised documental sources contextualized in the evolution both historical and cartographic of a territory.
Capitolo o saggio
The sign of memory, Tthe city in progress, Perception and territory identity
English
De-sign Environmental Landscape City 2019
Pellegri, G
2019
978-88-94943-83-2
Genova University Press
Bollini, L. (2019). Geo-graphica. The visual representation of urban identity evolution: maps and visual artefacts as historical knowledge machines.. In G. Pellegri (a cura di), De-sign Environmental Landscape City 2019. Genova : Genova University Press.
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