Ancient Cartographies as a Basis for Geolocation Models in Public Space: The Case of Giambattista Nolli and its Heritage Application

Pablos, Francisco Javier Navarro de; Mosquera-Pérez, Clara; Hernández, Antonio Cubero

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/471/9/092031

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“…Before the arrival of the mass tourism that launched the process of disneyfication of the Kraków city centre, the Main Market Square played the role of an urban salon that both Jacobs (1961) and Mumford (1961) had each dreamed of in their own way. Before the pandemic, from the inhabitants' standpoint, the greatest value of the Old Town, despite its disneyfication, were its high-quality open spaces, supplemented by accessible (level 1-2) and relatively accessible (level 3) places as presented in Fig.…”

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Lockdown in a disneyfied city: Kraków Old Town and the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

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This paper presents the geography of the historic central district of Kraków, Poland before, during and after the first wave of the 2020 pandemic. It describes how the disneyfied main part of the UNESCO heritage site of universal values turned into a ghost town as functional changes were turning into physical ones amid restrictions. From the results of pre-pandemic processes (that, as we argue, turned the city into its disneyfied version), to the lockdown (that later revealed itself to be but the first one in a row), to the post-lockdown recovery, these changes are presented in modified figure-ground diagrams with accessibility being defined by both tangible and intangible properties. The results are set against the background of the city’s current policies regarding economic recovery, mobility and accessibility to urban green areas. As an attempt to address the present vulnerability of the once resilient historic city centres—of which Kraków Old Town is a luminous example—this paper tends to be a voice in the debate on the post-2020 planning and the strategies we will need to face the subsequent waves of this, or other, pandemics as well as consequences of climate change.

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Lockdown in a disneyfied city: Kraków Old Town and the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

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“…Camilo Sitte (1889) redesigned cities to remind us of the key points that, in his opinion, make cities and their spaces more exciting and beautiful. Kevin Lynch (1970) used maps as a critique of the context of cities built in the 1950s and 1960s. Venturi et al (1972) mapped the centrality of Las Vegas in their design of the Strip with all its pseudo-urban trappings as an extension of public use.…”

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Porosity and fragmentation of the block in the city core: a Nolli’s innovation perspective

2021

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Urban centrality demands building space that erodes and implodes blocks in the most accessible places. Nolli's map made in 1748 was the first known graphic reference that visualised the phenomenon. The map and its contemporary interpretation are the starting point for this paper. The research has graphic support from existing maps that used Nolli's idea to represent those cities, and other maps created ad hoc. It is argued how territories are divided into small units that fold and wrinkle, drawing the conclusion that they do it to (i) find the maximum useful surface area in the minimum amount of space; (ii) concentrate activity; (iii) enable interaction; (iv) optimise resources; (v) accelerate processes; and (vi) cure urban diseases. Methodologically, this is done in two large sections, one showing erosion, division and fragmentation of the central urban layouts, and another emphasising the importance of architecture extending urban layouts to other directions.

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Towards Smart Planning Conservation of Heritage Cities: Digital Technologies and Heritage Conservation Planning

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Culture and Computing. Interactive Cultural Heritage and Arts

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Ancient Cartographies as a Basis for Geolocation Models in Public Space: The Case of Giambattista Nolli and its Heritage Application

Cited by 3 publications

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Lockdown in a disneyfied city: Kraków Old Town and the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

Lockdown in a disneyfied city: Kraków Old Town and the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

Porosity and fragmentation of the block in the city core: a Nolli’s innovation perspective

Towards Smart Planning Conservation of Heritage Cities: Digital Technologies and Heritage Conservation Planning

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