Mapping Landscapes in Transformation: Multidisciplinary Methods for Historical Analysis

The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. Additionally, the opening up of increasingly diverse collections of source material, often incomplete and difficult to interpret, has led to methodologically...

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 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...

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/...