The Digital Paris Project
Interractive Maps and Digital Reconstruction
Latest News
New Project To Begin
HIST 336 “Ancien Regime and Revolution” will explore early seventeenth-century urbanization in terms of the Place des Vosges and the Place Dauphine.
Flash Coming Soon
During the Fall semester of 2011, students will continue adding flash componets to the Les Halles de Paris 3D model.
Welcome
The Digital Paris Project is a collaborative and trans-disciplinary project designed to explore the history, literature, and architectural landscapes of Paris through the social biographies of real individuals, fictional characters and urban sites.
Hosted by Coastal Carolina University under the direction of Philip Whalen, The Digital Paris Project combines digital technologies (Dreamweaver, Sketchup 2, 2nd Life, BuildingMaker, Flash, etc.) with multiple disciplines to produce an interactive, hypermedia environment designed for exploring the historical layers of bygone city spaces.
Ultimately capable of spanning Paris from 1500 to 2000, ‘Digital Paris’ will begin with the nineteenth century by exploring the Revolutions of 1830, 1848 and 1871; the novels of Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Eugène Sue, Jules Vallès, Marcel Proust and Georges Simenon; the massive urban redevelopment of Napoleon III and Georges-Eugène Haussmann; the great Paris Expositions; and the German occupation of 1940-1945.
Tracked across geo-referenced, high resolution and hyperlinked maps, individual social biographies will explore important themes related to Parisian urban experience, including, but not limited to, the geographies of: luxury and leisure; poverty and marginality; Republican politics and popular revolt; the ordinary, monumental, and the spectacular; along with modernity, preservation, and development. The itineraries of protagonists inhabiting different time-space coordinates will be anchored in 3-D reconstructions of buildings and neighborhoods.