This presentation was given by Ralph Bodenstein (German Archaeological Institute, Cairo, Egypt) during the workshop organized in the framework of the Cost Action IS0904 "European Architecture Beyond Europe" (INHA, Paris, France, 27-28th January 2014). Programme : http://www.architecturebeyond.eu/workshop-gis-data-visualisation-and-open-community-paris-27-28-january-2014/

1. Experiences with GIS for collaborative urban-historical research:
The Zokak el-Blat Project in Beirut
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

2. Zokak el-Blat
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

3. Zokak el-Blat
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

4. DFG-funded research project
„Zokak el-Blat:
History, structure, and transformation of a pericentral quarter of Beirut”
Interdisciplinary
Field-research based
DFG funding 2001-2003
Actual start 1997 – end 2004
Location: Orient-Institute Beirut (OIB)
Project supervisors:
Hans Gebhardt
Dorothée Sack
Research team:
Anne Mollenhauer – architectural history
Ralph Bodenstein – urban & architectural history
Jens Hanssen
– history
Oliver Kögler
– urban geography
Andreas Fritz
– urban geography
Bernhard Hillenkamp – political sciences
Friederike Stolleis
– social anthropology
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

5. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
History, structure, and transformation of a pericentral quarter Ralph Bodenstein

6. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
History, structure, and transformation of a pericentral quarter Ralph Bodenstein

7. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

8. The GIS of the Zokak el-Blat project
Function: Platform for
• central data deposit
• access to, exchange of, and comparison of data among team members
• spatialisation and visualisation of collected data
• to help analysis and interpretation of data
• production of maps for presentation and publication
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Programme: ArcView GIS 3.2
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GIS was introduced with delay at an advanced stage of the project
Not online, but based on desktop computers in the project office, with
additional copies on laptops (data updates required!)
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

9. Building and feeding our GIS:
• Starting out from a up-to-date basic map
(remember? G
(
b ? Google E th did ‘t exist yet!)
l Earth didn‘t i t t!)
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

10. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

11. Building and feeding our GIS:
• Starting out from an up-to-date basic map
• Addi cadastral maps (1 2000 of 1964 1 500 series
Adding d t l
(1:2000 f 1964, 1:500
i
of 1930s and after)
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

12. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

13. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

14. Building and feeding our GIS:
• Starting out from an up-to-date basic map
• Addi cadastral maps (1 2000 of 1964 1 500 series
Adding d t l
(1:2000 f 1964, 1:500
i
of 1930s and after)
• Adding existing survey studies
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

15. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

16. Building and feeding our GIS:
• Starting out from an up-to-date basic map
• Addi cadastral maps (1 2000 of 1964 1 500 series
Adding d t l
(1:2000 f 1964, 1:500
i
of 1930s and after)
• Adding existing survey studies
• Adding own urban survey data (e.g. building heights,
building age building types state of preservation
age,
types,
preservation,
functions and use, inhabitants…)
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

17. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

18. Building and feeding our GIS:
• Starting out from an up-to-date basic map
• Addi cadastral maps (1 2000 of 1964 1 500 series
Adding d t l
(1:2000 f 1964, 1:500
i
of 1930s and after)
• Adding existing survey studies
• Adding own urban survey data (e.g. building heights,
building age building types state of preservation
age,
types,
preservation,
functions and use, inhabitants…)
• Adding HISTORICAL LAYERS using historical aerial
photos and maps
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

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20. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

21. Street shapes
Building shapes
Layers f
L
for:
1920, 1945, 1964,
1977, 1991, 2003
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

22. Tracing & visualising processes of urban change
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

23. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

24. 1964
1977
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25. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

26. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein

27. 1920
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28. 1945
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29. 1964
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30. 1977
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31. 1991
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32. 2003
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33. Tackling tables and challenges
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34. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
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35. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
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36. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
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37. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
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38. Word files
html fil
ht l files
image files
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39. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
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40. What to do with
with…
- Multiple data per polygon shape?
- Non-spatial or „amorphous“ information?
- sensitive information?
Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
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42. Zokak el-Blat in Beirut
Ralph Bodenstein