Mapping space, sense, and movement in Florence : historical GIS and the early modern city / edited by Nicholas Terpstra and Colin Rose.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Nicholas Terpstra -- Part A. Creating a historical GIS project -- Thinking and using DECIMA : neighbourhoods and occupations in Renaissance Florence / Colin Rose -- The route of governmentality : surveying and collecting urban space in Ducal Florence / Leah Faibisoff -- From the DECIMA to the DECIMA and back again : the data behind the data / Eduardo Fabbro -- Shaping the streetscape : institutions as landlords in early modern Florence / Daniel Jamison -- Part B. Using digital mapping to unlock spatial and social relations -- Women behind walls : tracking nuns and socio-spatial networks in sixteenth-century Florence / Sharon Strocchia and Julia Rombough -- Locating the sex trade in the early modern city : space, sense, and regulation in sixteenth century Florence / Nicholas Terpstra -- Plague and the city : methodological considerations in mapping disease in early modern Florence / John Henderson and Colin Rose -- Part C. Mapping motion, emotion and sense : using digital mapping to rethink cateogries and communication -- Seeing sound : mapping the Florentine soundscape / Niall Atkinson -- Mapping fear : plague and perception in Florence & Tuscany / Nicholas A. Eckstein -- Locating experience in the Renaissance city using mobile App technologies : the Hidden Florence Project / Fabrizio Nevola and David Rosenthal -- Conclusion: Towards early modern spatial humanities / Nicholas Terpstra and Colin Rose.

"Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence explores the potential of digital mapping or historical GIS as a research and teaching tool which can describe the spatial, kinetic and sensory dimensions of the early modern city of Florence"--Provided by publisher.