Cartografía histórica y nuevas tecnologías para el análisis urbano: la Granada de finales del siglo XIX

Abstract

In this paper we present the main methods and early conclusions of the investigation about the morphological structure in the city of Granada at the end of the nineteenth century, assuming, firstly, that this structure is a spatial entity which has its own production process along the time, and also approaching an essential methodological consideration: a traditional cartographic image, supporting by GIS from the digital age, may be a source and an instrument for the urban spatial analysis. These ideas were put into practice by the Plano de Granada of the Instituto Geográfico y Estadístico (1909), a valuable historical-cartographic milestone on which we applied new digital tools of acquisition, processing and analysis of information, in order to study and to reach a more precise comprehension of the "current plane" of the city.