This website is no longer updated and has been replaced with a static copy. The Spatial History Project was active at Stanford University from 2007-2022, engaging in dozens of collaborative projects led by faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, visiting scholars and others at Stanford and beyond. More than 150 undergraduate students from more than a dozen disciplines contributed to these projects. In addition to a robust intellectual exchange built through these partnerships, research outputs included major monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, museum exhibitions, digital articles, robust websites, and dozens of lightweight interactive visualizations, mostly developed with Adobe Flash (now defunct). While most of those publications live on in other forms, the content exclusive to this website is preserved in good faith through this static version of the site. Flash-based content is partially available in emulated form using the Ruffle emulator.
Contested Waters: Rio de Janeiro’s Public Water Supply and the Social Structuring of a City
The spatially-oriented analysis of the water distribution in 19th combines data on the position of aqueducts, fountains, private taps, the conduit system and the amount of water provided by each of these with the data of the “Terrain of History” (http://www.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/../projects/project999.html) project. It will explore through dynamic visualizations the relationship between property, occupations, diseases, demography, and the accessibility of water. The objective is to understand the socio-geographic development of a city characterized by major geological challenges from the perspective of its water supply.
Lead Researcher
