The Digital Urban Experience of a Lost City

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_5712
dc.title	The Digital Urban Experience of a Lost City. Using Mixed Methods to Depict the Historical Street Life of Edo/Tokyo
dc.contributor.author	Saygi Gamze
dc.contributor.author	Yasunaga Marie
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/magazen/2021/2/the-digital-urban-experience-of-a-lost-city/
dc.description.abstract	This paper digitally reconstructs street life in Edo (present-day Tokyo), the largest lost city of the pre-modern world. The ephemeral character of the Edo makes the historic urban experience extremely difficult to capture. We argue that the hypothetical digital reconstructions should incorporate evidence on human agency and spatial properties for a holistic simulation of historic street life. We develop a 3D hypothetical reconstruction based on multi-layered historical evidence to unlock the lost character of the Edo streets. It reveals the streets of Edo, including the rhythms of everyday life and the impact of the material culture.
dc.relation.ispartof	magazén
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 2 \| Issue 2 \| December 2021
dc.issued	2021-12-10
dc.dateAccepted	2021-09-15
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-05-05
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-3923
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2021/04/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	3D modelling
dc.subject	3D modelling
dc.subject	Digital past
dc.subject	Digital past
dc.subject	Everyday life
dc.subject	Everyday life
dc.subject	Pre-modern Japan
dc.subject	Pre-modern Japan
dc.subject	Space-use
dc.subject	Space-use
dc.subject	Streetscape
dc.subject	Streetscape
dc.subject	Urban history
dc.subject	Urban history
dc.subject	Virtual reconstruction
dc.subject	Virtual reconstruction

Research Article
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Using Mixed Methods to Depict the Historical Street Life of Edo/Tokyo

Gamze Saygi University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Marie Yasunaga University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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abstract

This paper digitally reconstructs street life in Edo (present-day Tokyo), the largest lost city of the pre-modern world. The ephemeral character of the Edo makes the historic urban experience extremely difficult to capture. We argue that the hypothetical digital reconstructions should incorporate evidence on human agency and spatial properties for a holistic simulation of historic street life. We develop a 3D hypothetical reconstruction based on multi-layered historical evidence to unlock the lost character of the Edo streets. It reveals the streets of Edo, including the rhythms of everyday life and the impact of the material culture.

Subtags: Technology Society Visualisation Analysis Modelling 3d data Image data Preservation Monuments

Published

Dec. 10, 2021

Accepted

Sept. 15, 2021

Submitted

May 5, 2021

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Keywords: 3D modelling • Urban history • Virtual reconstruction • Digital past • Streetscape • Space-use • Everyday life • Pre-modern Japan

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