Measuring Urban Change in Travel Texts Using the Example of the City of Graz in the Long Nineteenth Century
Abstract
Historic urban space with its formations, changes and dissolutions can be represented in various ways. This paper focuses on narrative spatial representations of the city of Graz in 19th-century guidebooks. In these texts the subjective in the individual accounts interweaves with historical reality. Two methods to reconstruct perceptions and experiences of historical spaces and spatial relationships in travel texts are presented, with the aim of making aspects of urban change measurable.
Submitted: Feb. 1, 2022 | Accepted: April 11, 2022 | Published June 30, 2022 | Language: en
Keywords Travel Literature • Spatial analysis • Urban History • Maps • 19th century
Subtags Image data Society Environment Documents Textual data Publication Geo-referenced data Analysis Technology Visualisation
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