RAM Colloquium with Seraphim Alvanides
Event type:
- Veranstaltungen
Spatial humanities and bombed cities: analysing historical maps of urban damage
There is a wealth of maps from the Second World War depicting bomb damage of cities in various ways and in great detail, many of them languishing in various archives worldwide. The project UrbanMetaMapping (Bamberg University, Germany) has developed tools for making these maps findable and for analysing them with GIS. Two examples will be presented in detail for the cities of Essen and Nuremberg, both heavily bombed, while their post-war fate followed different paths. Historical damage maps offer a methodological and substantive framework for the analysis of postwar cities that should be of interest to city planners and policymakers.