The Digital Thematic Deconstruction of Historic Town Views and Maps

Vannieuwenhuyze, Bram; Vernackt, Elien

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“…Digital thematic deconstruction is a method of digital map analysis which is particularly suitable for studying, analysing, and unlocking such pre-nineteenth-century, figurative cartographic and iconographic documents (Vannieuwenhuyze and Vernackt 2014). Briefly speaking, it requires the systematic digital redrawing of an old map which is subsequently saved as vector data through a GIS.…”

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Mapping Landscapes in Transformation

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“…In diens studie over de plattegrond van Brussel toonde Vannieuwenhuyze wel aan dat de betreffende kaart in chronometrisch én in topografisch opzicht voor zowel de geïsoleerde kenmerken als de patronen, als nauwkeurig kan worden beschouwd. Voor een aantal topografische elementen, zoals een steeg die doodliep op een bosschage, kon Vannieuwenhuyze ter controle beschikken over alternatief bronnenmateriaal 389. Een interessante invalshoek voor het beoordelen van het werk van Blaeu leverde in 2011 Eddy Verbaan in zijn proefschrift…”

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‘So one would notice the good navigability’: economic decline and the cartographic conception of urban space in late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Bruges

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During most of the late medieval period, the Flemish city of Bruges acted as the main commercial hub of north-western Europe. In the course of the fifteenth century, however, Bruges lost much of its allure as an economic metropolis. One of the most urgent challenges the urban authorities were facing was the navigability of the waterways in and around the city. While the city government made structural investments to remedy the problems, written sources constantly emphasized how important it was that Bruges remained accessible from the sea. During the same period, the earliest preserved maps of the city and its environment emerged. Drawing on the work of Henri Lefebvre, this article argues that these visual representations were informed by the same commercial ideology. Despite, or exactly because of, the city's decreasing maritime accessibility, they conceived Bruges as a place that could easily be reached by trading ships and where merchants could trade in the best possible circumstances.

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The Digital Thematic Deconstruction of Historic Town Views and Maps

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‘So one would notice the good navigability’: economic decline and the cartographic conception of urban space in late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Bruges

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