Lost Cities, Recovered Cities: Technology in the Service of the Past

José Antonio Fernández Ruiz

Spain

Universidad de Granada

Departamento de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica de la Universidad de Granada. España

Lucía Gómez Robles

Spain

Universidad de Jaén

Departamento del Patrimonio Histórico, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación,
Universidad de Jaén. España.

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Accepted: 2015-11-02

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Published: 2013-11-05

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2013.4247
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Keywords:

Digital modeling, Computer reconstruction of old historic cities

Supporting agencies:

This research was not funded

Abstract:

Cities are living entities that change almost daily but its people are aware of it. They forget the state before the great changes and people become accustomed to the new urban image. In a hundred years a city can completely change its appearance and even its essence. This is the case of Granada, where its historic center was heavily modified during the nineteenth century. These changes have been studied by a project analyzing and virtually rebuilding the historic city. The work ranges from the Rey Chico, below the Alhambra palace, to Puerta Real, restoring the image of the city around 1831, based on the engravings and descriptions of romantic travelers, on the previous alignments and transformations in old pictures.

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References:

Archivo del Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife (APAG). Colección de Grabados/0051. Signatura antigua: 756. Plataforma de Granada por Ambrosio de Vico, Maestro mayor de la insigne Iglesia de Granada, 1590- 1613.

ICOMOS (2008): Carta Ename para la interpretación de lugares pertenecientes al patrimonio cultural. http://www.enamecharter.org/index.html

FERNÁNDEZ SALINAS, V. M. (1994): Los centros históricos en la evolución de la ciudad europea desde los años setenta, en Eria, Revista Cuatrimestral de Geografía. nº 34, pp. 121-131.

LOWENTHAL, D. (1985): El pasado es un país extraño. Madrid: Akal, 1998.

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