Mapping Digital Urban History - Use Case Luxembourg

Since 2016, a research project of the University of Luxembourg (IHIST: Institute for History) in close collaboration with the city of Luxemburg is investigating research in the development of an interactive, dynamic web site, providing insights in the urban development since the beginning of the 19th century at single building level scale. The elaborated historic town Atlas represents a collection of maps and structures (e.g. building, fortress, streets) combined with explanatory texts, chronological tables and images, which all trace the history of the city and illustrate its stages of development. It represents a tool for additional new knowledge with which the historical process of change will be documented diachronically. The target groups are international urban history research and general public.