University of Basel

Department
of History

The project uses the example of Basel to research the management of urban real estate. The interest is directed towards economic discourses and practices as well as actors, whereby the analysis takes place in the perspective of a longue durée of 300 years. This is made possible by the use of digital technologies, AI-based methods to access data and computer-assisted evaluation procedures with which the Historical Land Register of the City of Basel (HGB) is processed. This makes it possible to combine innovative methods with tried and tested approaches in order to address historical research questions: machine evaluations complement each other with case studies that analyse economic practices and their linguistic repertoires down to the micro level of individual transactions and the actors involved. In this way, results and procedures emerge that are meaningful far beyond the individual case.

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                                                        Miniconference within the Framework of the IMC Leeds

                                                                                      Date: 07. Juli 2025

                                                                                      Time: 11:15 - 18:30

                                                                              Title: Economies of Urban Spaces

                                                             Sessions I-III: Historiographies, Actors, Digital Methods

                                                                                     *** Book of Abstracts. ***

 

 

  • Esther Baur, State Archives Basel city
  • Susanna Burghartz, Department of History, University of Basel
  • Thomas Ertl, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute Freie Universiy of Berlin
  • Andreas Kettner, Landregister Surveying Office
  • Martin Möhle, Preservation of Historical Monuments Basel City
  • Michael Piotrowski, Sciences du langage et de l'information Faculté des lettres Université de Lausanne
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