About Urban Maps Digital

Urban Maps Digital (UMD) focuses on the digitalization of historic maps of Lviv and other cities and towns in East Central Europe. While the related projects Lviv Interactive and the Urban Image Database foreground individual objects or visual representations, using maps essentially as an index and orientation tool, Urban Maps Digital highlights the maps themselves. At the same time, Urban Maps Digital also establishes new sequences and combinations of frequently previously unpublished or long forgotten maps, opening up fresh diachronic perspectives through the multiple layers of Lviv's past.

For questions and comments please contact the Project Manager Serhiy Tereshchenko, s.tereshchenko@lvivcenter.org.

Serhiy Tereshchenko, MA, obtained his degree from the History Department of Lviv's Ivan Franko University in 2005. His fields of interest are History, Sociology, and Cultural Studies. Currently he is doing research on the history of tourism in Lviv and Galicia, interpreting it as a mass phenomenon and in its relationship to the construction of national identities among local communities.