Mapping space, sense, and movement in Florence : historical GIS and the early modern city /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Description:	xv, 220 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge research in digital humanities Routledge research in digital humanities
Subject:	Geographic information systems. Digital mapping. City and town life -- History -- Research -- Italy -- Florence -- Data processing. Public spaces -- History -- Research -- Italy -- Florence -- Data processing. Spatial behavior -- Social aspects -- History -- Research -- Italy -- Florence -- Data processing. Senses and sensation -- Social aspects -- History -- Research -- Italy -- Florence -- Data processing. Walking -- History -- Research -- Social aspects -- Italy -- Florence -- Data processing. Digital mapping. Geographic information systems. Research -- Data processing. Florence (Italy) -- Historical geography -- Data processing. Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737 -- Research -- Data processing. Italy -- Florence. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10532779

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Other authors / contributors:	Terpstra, Nicholas, editor. Rose, Colin, editor.
ISBN:	9781138184893 1138184896 9781315639314
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence explores the potential of digital mapping or historical GIS as a research and teaching tool which can describe the spatial, kinetic and sensory dimensions of the early modern city of Florence"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Nicholas Terpstra
Part A. Creating a historical GIS project
Thinking and using DECIMA : neighbourhoods and occupations in Renaissance Florence / Colin Rose
The route of governmentality : surveying and collecting urban space in Ducal Florence / Leah Faibisoff
From the DECIMA to the DECIMA and back again : the data behind the data / Eduardo Fabbro
Shaping the streetscape : institutions as landlords in early modern Florence / Daniel Jamison
Part B. Using digital mapping to unlock spatial and social relations
Women behind walls : tracking nuns and socio-spatial networks in sixteenth-century Florence / Sharon Strocchia and Julia Rombough
Locating the sex trade in the early modern city : space, sense, and regulation in sixteenth century Florence / Nicholas Terpstra
Plague and the city : methodological considerations in mapping disease in early modern Florence / John Henderson and Colin Rose
Part C. Mapping motion, emotion and sense : using digital mapping to rethink cateogries and communication
Seeing sound : mapping the Florentine soundscape / Niall Atkinson
Mapping fear : plague and perception in Florence & Tuscany / Nicholas A. Eckstein
Locating experience in the Renaissance city using mobile App technologies : the Hidden Florence Project / Fabrizio Nevola and David Rosenthal
Conclusion: Towards early modern spatial humanities / Nicholas Terpstra and Colin Rose.

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