Abstract :
[en] This guided poster presentation will give an overview of initial findings from my doctoral research, analyzing how public urban green spaces (PUGS) shaped an urban citizenry in Hamburg and Marseille in the aftermath of WWII and continuing until the First Oil Shock in 1973. Focusing specifically on public parks and playgrounds, these two spaces allow for an in-depth analysis of how urban citizens were meant to spend their free time and how their behavior was formed by the public spaces available to them. The interplay between commissioners and users of PUGS is at the center of this project.
This project uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map the development of PUGS, i.e., to visualize when a park came into being, where it was located, and how this is connected to the social status of the users. In a second step these maps and the queries applied to them will be used as tools of analysis to find out what influence these choices and developments had on the users of the PUGS. This poster will show examples of data to be used, as well as historical maps and planning sketches found in the municipal archives of Hamburg and Marseille. An initial map shall illustrate in which direction I would like to take the maps for this thesis. In presenting these examples, this guided poster presentation hopes to trigger a discussion about how to handle the data used and how to apply GIS in a meaningful way to this analysis.
