Mapping a Vanished City: a GIS on Ottoman and ModernMapping a Vanished City. A GIS on Ottoman and Modern Mapping a Vanished City: a GIS on Ottoman and Modern Alexandria

pp g yAlexandria, 16th-19th Centuries

Ghislaine Alleaume, AMU-CNRS, IREMAM (UMR7310)

Workshop: GIS, data visualisation and open communityParis, InVisu, INHA, 27-28 jan. 2014

In Search of Ottoman Alexandria

Wood engraving by Pannemaker, 1860

Behind today’s Skyline

Digital Picture, November 2013

Under the Veil of Colonial BlindnessUnder the Veil of Colonial Blindness

Alexandrie, Quartier arabe Alexandria, Native Quarter Alexandria, Arab Quarter

History and Narratives. A Tale of Two Citiesy

Wilkinson, Modern Egypt and Thebes, After Capt. Smyth, 1843

Ibrāhīm Tirbāna Mosque, 1097/1685-1686q ,

‘Abd al-Bāqī Shūrbaǧī Mosque and Wikāla, 1174/1761q ǧ q ,

What Survey and Field Work would bringWhat Survey and Field Work would bring

A Fountain (sabīl) A Ḥammām

A 20th Century ḥammām, destroyed three years ago

Archives and Maps: Playing with Scales and Tables

A Collection of 800 endowment deeds (awqāf)

Description de l’Egypte, 1800

Gallice, 1845

Muller, 1855

Falakī, 1865

Tanẓīm, 1887

City Council, 1902

Survey, 1/500e, 1935-1940

Survey, 1000e, 1910 - Ḥārat al-Yāhūd

Mapping Visual Documentation: Abū Sinn Mosque in Shāri‘ Ra’s al-Tīn

Mappin a Trust Foundation : the Waqf of Ḥammūda b. ‘Umar al-Qal‘ī, 1792

Mapping a Court Case: Novacarbi versus Battista, 1848