Images, Maps, Texts. Reading the Meanings of the Later Medieval and Early Modern City (original) (raw)
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2019
The evolution of cities can be interpreted through graphic elements, as recommended by Marco Pollio Vitruvius (1st century BC), whose forms of expression (plans, elevations and perspectives) are revealed as precious and reliable instruments to read the cities. Establishing mapping elements, they appear as representing cities and in various stages of construction of their urban networks. The iconography is an important element of analysis that allows a careful reading of the "reality" of cities at speci c times. In addition to understanding them as representative of static moments, they allow the current reinterpretation of the urban fabric. Adding new elements may be important in reading the cities, which are considered as dynamic tools for its understanding. Regarding cartography and iconography of various eras, we propose to make a comparative analysis of the historical urban fabric of two cities with deployment capabilities and differentiated urban development (Évora and Setúbal). To achieve our goals, we will read the morphological elements of the Medieval City (forti cation, street, square, medieval blocks; market; singular buildings) and its iconography in order to understand its diachronic evolution between their similarities and differences.
This paper summarizes a study of medieval Padova in which GIS is used as a basis for exploring the space syntax of the city’s street networks and considers the usefulness of these methods in the study of medieval urban landscapes. Using indices derived from space syntax methods, such as integration and choice, it is possible to read urban space and understand more clearly the distribution of building typologies in the context of integrated streets. Questo articolo descrive uno studio di Padova medievale in cui il GIS è stato utilizzato come base per indagare la space syntax della rete stradale urbana e considera l’utilità di questo mezzo nello studio dello spazio urbano medievale. Usando gli indici derivanti dai metodi della space syntax, è possibile leggere e interpretare più chiaramente lo spazio urbano e la distribuzione delle tipologie degli edifici nel contesto stradale.
Cartography and iconography as diachronic analysis tools of the urban fabric ─ Évora and Setúbal
Learning from Rome. Historical Cities and Contemporary Design - ISUFItaly 2017, 2018
Introduction A evolução das cidades pode ser interpretada através de elementos gráficos, como o recomendado por Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (1º século a.C.) (MACIEL, 2006), cujas formas de expressão eram planos, elevações e perspectivas, que se revelam como instrumentos preciosos e confiáveis para a leitura das cidades. Importa estabelecer esses elementos, que aparecem como representações de cidades, em vários estágios de construção das suas malhas urbanas, em documentos como a cartografia ou a iconografia. Estes são testemunhos relevantes na análise e permitem uma leitura atenta da "realidade" das cidades, em épocas distintas. Para além de compreendê-los como representações dum determinado período, eles permitem a reinterpretação atual do tecido urbano, devendo ser considerados instrumentos dinâmicos na compreensão da leitura das cidades. Tendo em conta a cartografia e a iconografia de várias épocas, faremos uma análise comparativa do tecido urbano histórico, de duas cidades, com recurso à implantação e ao desenvolvimento urbano diferenciados (Évora e Setúbal). Para alcançar esses objetivos, iremos ler e interpretar elementos morfológicos da Cidade Medieval (fortificações, praças, ruas, quarteirões, mercados, edifícios singulares, …) e estes respectivos documentos testemunhais, a fim de se compreender a evolução diacrónica, nas suas semelhanças e diferenças.
Topographies of the Early Modern City
2008
The poem will be cited from the edition by The poem will be cited from the edition by frieDrich and eriKA wentzlAff-eGGeBert, Deutsche Literatur im späten Mittelalter, Reinbeck 1971, I, 203-211. 8 Also marked as part of a series of items: Also marked as part of a series of items: noch eins (15); noch. .. ein ding (347); and asserted as being in no other city, in keiner stat (337, 349) or like no other, nyndert geleichen (290, 296). Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 Darauff da lag der edel schatz / In einer rinckmawren im thal (192.11-13). Moreover, this experience is shared by two viewers, the narrator and the herald. The former simply takes pleasure in being able to encompass the entire city in his field of view, which appears to his unpractised eye as an immeasurable multitude (unzelich zal) of buildings of different sizes and styles: Do sach ich ein unzelich zal / Heuser gepawen hoch und nieder / In dieser state hin und wieder / Mit gibel-mawern undterschieden, / Vor fewer gwaltig zu befrieden, / Köstlich tachwerk mit knöpffen, zinnen (192.14-19). The omniscient herald, however, shifts the mode of perception from unreflected seeing (sehen) to measured looking (schawen), and proceeds to survey all the streets and inventory the city's contents: Schaw durch die gassen uberal, Wie ordenlich sie sein gesundert Der sein acht und zwaintzig fünff hundert Gepflastert durch-auss wol besunnen, Mit hundert sechzehen schöpff-brunnen, Wellich stehen auff der gemein Unt darzu zwölff rörprunnen fein, Vier schlag-glocken und zwo klein hor. Zwey thürlein und sechs grosse thor Hat die stat und eylff stayner prucken, Gehawen von grossen werck-stucken. Auch hat sie zwölff benandter bergk Unnd zehen geordneter märck Hin unde wieder in der stat, Darauff man find nach allem rat the contemporary topos: Wie friedsam treuer Sitten, / getrost in Tat und Werk, / liegt nicht in Deutschlands Mitten / mein liebes Nürenberg! Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0
Interpreting Urban Spaces in Italian cultures
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