Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Edinburgh HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No OpeningTime1 6 pm for 90 minutes OpeningDate1 22/9/2016 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 14422 Refreshments No Street The street address Teviot Lecture Theatre (Doorway 5) AddressLine2 Teviot Place Postcode EH1 2QZ Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Talk - MESH - Mapping Edinburgh's Social History Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived edinburgh Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1893 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.94566,-3.190311; Description An account of the resource Richard Rodger, Professor of Economic and Social HistoryThe Edinburgh Atlas (E-ATLAS) will provide a new digital atlas of Edinburgh structured around six temporal periods: the early city; medieval city c.1300-1550; the early modern city 1550-1680; Enlightenment Edinburgh, 1680-1820; the 'modern' city, c.1820-1914; the capital city, 1914-2000.The project will be structured around the theme of the city's spatial evolution, and guided by cartographic principles - administrative areas, urban plans, plots and jurisdictions.?The initiative will result in both a published hard copy Edinburgh Atlas, updateable on demand, and an electronic version (the e-atlas).Professor Rodger believes they will provide a ground-breaking new form of urban atlas, a spatial frame in which scholars, local history groups and the general public may supplement existing work and provide their own mapped data to interrogate city form over time. ?The changing nature and structure of the city will form the basis of interpretive essays organised around key themes, such as The Dynamics of Negotiated Spaces.The work is being funded by a �633,000 grant from the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and supported by project partners: Edinburgh City Council, Edinburgh World Heritage Trust, National Library of Scotland (Map Library), Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland, and Simpson and Brown (Architects).As such, MESH combines institutional collaboration within Scotland's capital with research-led, intellectual innovation, technical innovation, web-based academic exchange and public involvement.Like the earlier Visualising Urban Geographies project, also funded by the AHRC, MESH will work closely with its partners to develop new and imaginative resources to represent the changing nature of urban form. Professor Rodger is confident that the Edinburgh Atlas will form the basis for wider dissemination and project emulation in cities across the world.