Representation of the urban space in time

This study is part of a research project that investigates forms of visualization and representation of the urban space. The focus is to represent part of the city of Salvador – the port area – that permits the understanding of what this area is today and what it was in the past. Therefore, the problem is to represent an urban area in different times. It will be used several instruments and media to build this representation, which will have as a standard support the interpretation of historic iconography. Besides it will also need other devices as the actual digital cartography available, historic maps, e.g. The final objective is to integrate the new models within a three-dimensional model of the city of Salvador, built in a previous project and through an interactive application that will permit the user navigates in the urban space within time. [Full paper in Portuguese