Chapter Preface Mapping Landscapes in Transformation: Multidisciplinary Methods for Historical Analysis

• Main Author: Coomans, Thomas (auth, Editor)
• Other Authors: Cattoor, Bieke (auth, Editor), De Jonge, Krista (auth, Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leuven Leuven University Press 2019
• Subjects: History of architecture; Industrialisation & industrial history; Landscape archaeology; Industrial archaeology; digital humanities; historical geography; urban history; landscape history; archaeology; heritage conservation; architecture
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"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time. 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 innovative experiments. One of today's major challenges, however, concerns the concepts and tools to be deployed for mapping processes of transformation-that is, interpreting and imagining the relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes, both in space and in time, at micro- and macro-scale. Mapping Landscapes in Transformation gathers experts from different disciplines, active in the fields of historical geography, urban and landscape history, archaeology and heritage conservation. They are specialised in a wide variety of space-time contexts, including regions within Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and periods from antiquity to the 21st century."