IN-PERSON Barcelona. Section B
Abstract
As one of the most heavily bomb-damaged cities in Germany, with around 90% of its historic city centre destroyed, Nuremberg provides an excellent example to explore the social and cultural transformation of a postwar city. Expanding on our previous work, which traced the post-war fate of Nuremberg’s 1940s Denkmäler (historic assets/cultural buildings/monuments), we bring together additional heterogeneous and under-researched data sets and archival material from the postwar period to explore Nuremberg’s transformation further. Converting urban features depicted in historic maps into geospatial data (extent/distribution of bomb damage and longitudinal socioeconomic data from the 1940s to present), we combine and explore the social and cultural legacy of the destruction of Nuremberg. Applying an urban analytics approach using a Geographical Information System (GIS) we map the spatial distribution of bomb damage alongside the fate of the 1940s heritage assets (Denkmäler) and the changing socioeconomic profile of Nuremberg at the district level. In doing so, we provide: 1) a richer understanding of the postwar legacy of Nuremberg from a social and cultural perspective and 2) an assessment of the relationship between bombed areas and their present-day heritage value and socioeconomic status. Offering insights into the conservation of heritage and the reconstruction of Nuremberg following the war, this research will interest planners/policymakers working in war-torn/destroyed cities.
Dr. Carol Ludwig works at the Universität des Saarlandes (Saarland University, Germany) where she teaches in Human Geography and leads the BMBF-funded subproject Sozialkartographie (part of the UrbanMetaMapping Research Consortium). She is an urban planner and social geographer with professional experience in local and regional municipalities, and in universities in the UK.
Dr. Seraphim Alvanides is an urban geographer, with expertise in quantitative methods and Geographical Information Science. His research interests involve the analysis of large spatial data related to urban sprawl, land use change, health inequalities and active transport (walking and cycling). The substantive question driving his research is to what extent the environment (broadly defined) influences individual behaviours and outcomes. He is editor of the journal Environment & Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, associate editor of the journal Heliyon Environment and an advocate of open science.
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Tuesday 16th July, 2024