The whole scheme has changed from a designed industrial housing development to domestic vernacular based on an extensive system of bottom-up and top-down adaptations and greater socio-economic changes. The inhabitants have incrementally expanded their houses, altered their roofs and facades, added sheds, garages, shops, and workshops, and rented out parts of them for income (Kostourou, 2020b). It comprises of 1,253 single-family houses, which over the course of 165 years, have been transformed. Cité Ouvrière is a nineteenth century working-class settlement originally built for the workers of the DMC textile factory. This paper discusses the methodology used in the study of morphological changes of buildings and plots in the Cité Ouvrière in Mulhouse in eastern France. Proposed as a solution to the inadequacy of current frameworks and datasets, the new methodology is able to collect and combine available information from online sources, archival documents, and field work create and process high resolution and aggregate data overcome limitations of current cartographic studies and open up possibilities for researchers to exploit two-dimensional and three-dimensional, categorical and numerical data for the analysis of spatial structures. The paper introduces an integrated framework for mapping physical changes of buildings and plots, by joining historical research, spatial analytics, and architectural modelling. This is because it can support a granular, longitudinal historical study that spans over 150 years and cover different spatial scales (from the neighbourhood to the building) while serving as a tool to systematically document transformations in the built form across scales and illustrating how local individual processes contribute to the formation and transformation of the larger whole. Specifically, the model has already been proven valuable in revealing patterns of change and measuring the impact of the building densification process at the microlevel (Kostourou, 2021). Its extent, level of aggregation and detail make it possible to use for cartographic research and spatial analysis at different scales and link it to available geographic information employed for municipal and national planning. The produced model combines the accuracy of smaller-size data with the extent of bigger-size data. The final outcome is a detailed and georeferenced three-dimensional model for the entire housing scheme of Cité Ouvrière that includes all 1,253 buildings (in volumes) and plots (in polygons) in their original (circa 1897) and current state. It examines (1) the availability and comparability of existing datasets (spatial, historical and archival), (2) the collection of new data from field surveys to historical maps, building permits, photographs, and planning documents by means of visual mapping, drawing, text review, and recording, and (3) their pre-processing including their transformation, cleansing, and integration using specialised tools, such as GIS, Rhino, Grasshopper, and RStudio. This paper discusses the methodologies and datasets used in the cartographic study of morphological change in a 19 th century residential scheme in Mulhouse, France.
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