magazén International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities

Rivista | magazén
Fascicolo monografico | 3 | 1 | 2022
Articolo | Measuring Urban Change in Travel Texts Using the Example of the City of Graz in the Long Nineteenth Century

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.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 01 Febbraio 2022 | Accettato: 11 Aprile 2022 | Pubblicato 30 Giugno 2022 | Lingua: en

Keywords 19th centuryTravel LiteratureSpatial analysisUrban HistoryMaps

Subtags Technology Visualisation Geo-referenced data Image data Environment Documents Society Publication Textual data Analysis


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