Hidden Cities

This ground-breaking collection explores the convergence of the spatial and digital turns through a suite of smartphone apps (Hidden Cities) that present research-led itineraries in early modern cities as public history.

Autorentext

Fabrizio Nevola is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on urban and architectural history of early modern cities, with a particular attention for everyday life and public space in Italy, to which he also applies digital humanities approaches.

David Rosenthal is Research Associate at the University of Exeter. He works on urban social history in early modern Italy, with a focus on public space, ritual, and work. He co-created the Hidden Florence app with Fabrizio Nevola and is supervising editor of the Hidden Cities apps. He is currently editing a collection on disaster in the early modern world.

Nicholas Terpstra is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He works at the intersections of gender, politics, charity, and religion in early modern Italy, focusing on civil and uncivil society, religious refugees, and the digital mapping of early modern social realities and relations.

Inhalt

Part 1 0. Introduction 1. Revisioning the City: Public History and Locative Digital Media 2. Heritage, placemaking and user experience: An industry perspective Part 2 3. Reconstructing the early modern news world: urban space, political conflict, and local publishing in Hamburg 4. Making Disability Visible In Digital Humanities: Blind Street Singers In Early Modern Valencia 5. Navigating Places of Knowledge: The Modern Devotion and Religious Experience in Late Medieval Deventer 6. "Trento, the Last Chance for a Beer". Mobility, Material Culture and Urban Space in an Early Modern Transit City 7. 'Stewarding Civic Spaces: Place and Social Mobility in Elizabethan Exeter' 8. City of Women: Mapping Movement, Gender, and Enclosure in Renaissance Florence Part 3 9. The Hidden Cities apps: digital engagement through geolocating museum collections 10. Hidden in plain sight? UX apps and the sustainable management of urban tourism 11. 3D models and locative AR: Hidden Florence 3D and experiments in reconstruction