Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence: Historical GIS and the Early Modern City (Routledge Research in Digital Humanities)

"Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence" explores the potential of digital mapping or Historical GIS as a research and teaching tool to enable researchers and students to uncover the spatial, kinetic and sensory dimensions of the early modern city. The exploration focuses on new digital research and mapping projects that engage the rich social, cultural, and artistic life of Florence in particular. One is a new GIS tool known as DECIMA, (Digitally-Encoded Census Information and Mapping Archive), and the other is a smartphone app called Hidden Florence. The international collaborators who have helped build these and other projects address three questions: how such projects can be created when there are typically fewer sources than for modern cities; how they facilitate more collaborative models for historical research into social relations, senses, and emotions; and how they help us interrogate older historical interpretations and create new models of analysis and communication. Four authors examine technical issues around the software programs and manuscripts. Five then describe how GIS can be used to advance and develop existing research projects. Finally, four authors look to the future and consider how digital mapping transforms the communication of research results, and makes it possible to envision new directions in research. This exciting new volume is illustrated throughout with maps, screenshots and diagrams to show the projects at work. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of early modern Italy, the Renaissance and digital humanities. 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. 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. Edited By Nicholas Terpstra And Colin Rose. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of figures......Page 8 List of tables......Page 11 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Abbreviations......Page 14 List of contributors......Page 15 Introduction......Page 18 PART 1 Creating a historical GIS project......Page 30 1 Thinking and using DECIMA: neighbourhoods and occupations in Renaissance Florence......Page 32 2 The route of governmentality: surveying and collecting urban space in ducal Florence......Page 50 3 From the Decima to DECIMA and back again: the data behind the data......Page 70 4 Shaping the streetscape: institutions as landlords in early modern Florence......Page 80 PART 2 Using digital mapping to unlock spatial and social relations......Page 102 5 Women behind walls: tracking nuns and socio-spatial networks in sixteenth-century Florence......Page 104 6 Locating the sex trade in the early modern city: space, sense, and regulation in sixteenth-century Florence......Page 124 7 Plague and the city: methodological considerations in mapping disease in early modern Florence......Page 142 PART 3 Mapping motion, emotion, and sense: using digital mapping to rethink categories and communication......Page 164 8 Seeing sound: mapping the Florentine soundscape......Page 166 9 Mapping fear: plague and perception in Florence and Tuscany......Page 186 10 Locating experience in the Renaissance city using mobile app technologies: the Hidden Florence project......Page 204 Conclusion: towards early modern spatial humanities......Page 227 Index......Page 234 Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence explores the potential of digital mapping or Historical GIS as a research and teaching tool. It considers two digital research projects: DECIMA, a GIS tool, and a smartphone app called Hidden Florence. Using these two projects, it explores how such projects are created; how they fa "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."--Résumé de l'éditeur