Unfolding Wasteland: A Thick Mapping Approach to the Transformation of Charleroi’s Industrial Landscape

‘The land, so heavily charged with traces and with past readings, seems very similar to a palimpsest’ (Corboz 1985: 190). Any territory is the result of multiple and simultaneous processes; some are taking place spontaneously, others as the direct result of human interventions. (Secchi 1990; Secchi and Viganò 2009) For urbanists, a territory is...

Mapping and Design as Interrelated Processes: Constructing Space-Time Narratives

Mapping Landscapes in Transformation

Innovation in mapping methods for historical landscape research is flourishing,<br/>largely because this type of research is situated at the very fertile intersection of<br/>ongoing technological development and sustained critical reflection. On the one<br/>hand, the development of digital tools for data capturing, data analysis and data<br/...

Mapping the Evolution of Designed Landscapes with GIS: Stourhead Landscape Garden as an Example

Landscapes change because they are the expression of the dynamic interaction between natural and cultural forces in the environment. As such the landscape is a palimpsest that evidences many successive transformations by human interventions, changing land-use and management, natural succession of vegetation, but also caused by climatological and...