Digital Humanities and 'Measurability' of the Nazi Regime in Spatial and Urban Planning? An attempt at a productive critique Cover Image

Digital Humanities und ‚Messbarkeit‘ des NS-Regimes in der Raum- und Stadtplanung? Versuch einer produktiven Kritik
Digital Humanities and 'Measurability' of the Nazi Regime in Spatial and Urban Planning? An attempt at a productive critique

Author(s): Katja Bernhardt
Subject(s): Architecture, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Keywords: image history; National Socialism; digital humanities; state of research;

Summary/Abstract: Research on urban and spatial planning in time of National Socialism is searching for opportunities to apply methods of digital analysis. This paper attempts to subject this request to a constructive critique. It starts from the assumption of a principle mutual interdependence between quantitative and qualitative strategies of analysis. From this perspective the paper discusses the state of research and its deficits. It then describes the framework given for the modulation of automatically analysis. The review of the different layers of problems lead finally to a fundamental critique of the perspectives of research to date, with regard to urban and spatial planning in time of National Socialism.

  • Issue Year: 2/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 155-172
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: German
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