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Over the last two decades, scholars have become increasingly aware of the potential of digital technologies for research in the humanities and social sciences. The amazing range of resources and software available combined to the increasing speed of the Internet is turning Vannevar Bush's "As we may think"  (1945) into an almost tangible reality.

The present portal has emerged from a concern about the use and application of visual and spatial data in historical research, more specifically in urban history. The initial impulse came from the creation of the first digital research platform – Virtual Shanghai – that addressed such issues. The platform was conceived, designed and created by Christian Henriot (Aix-Marseille University) in 2006 with the collaboration and support of Gérald Foliot who developed the code — webActors — that supports the origin

The Virtual Cities Project places a particular emphasis on the notion of spatial history. It is an approach that initially differed from historical geography perceived excessively focused on landscape and its transformation. Spatial history   also emerged before the emergence of GIS and the drastic renewal of methods that eventually made such a distinction fade away. On the one hand, historians have begun to invest the new technology in which they find a way to process (or re-process) data that was previous

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