Descriptio Urbis

[i]Measuring and representing the modern and contemporary city[/i] International Conference Rome, 27-29 March, 2008 Ara Pacis Museum, via di Ripetta 190 Faculty of Economics, via Silvio d'Amico 77 XVIII and XIX centuries represent a period of great economic growth, intellectual and technological development, creating the conditions for a scientific approach to the study of European cities. For the first time, methods and tools of cartographic survey reached a sufficient maturity to enable the production of geometrically correct bi-dimensional cartographic imagery, therefore allowing their reference into contemporary coordinate systems. At the same time, spatially referenced thematic sources (demographic, fiscal, etc.) became homogeneous, thus permitting their organisation into relational databases. In such a context, the physical transformations and the spatial distribution of phenomena can be studied from a “geographical-thematic” perspective using modern information techniques, able to manage large and inhomogeneous datasets. Interesting new research prospective can then be traced for historians aiming to jointly study sources of different origin and characteristics. You are invited to submit your contribution to this event which will comprise the following themes: Cartographic techniques and products, XVIII-XX centuries; Cadastral systems and other census tools, XVIII-XX centuries; Information systems and urban history; Historical cities' atlases. Visit the official site: http://host.uniroma3.it/centri/croma/descriptiourbis