Digital technologies for creating a virtual reconstruction of the historical landscape and urban development of Bely Gorod (17th – 18th centuries)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of methodology and methods of virtual reconstruction of the historical landscape of cities with a long history. This is one of the developing areas of modern historical urban studies, methodological basis of which includes 3D modeling technologies and three-dimensional GIS. The article describes an interdisciplinary project for creating a virtual reconstruction of the landscape of Bely Gorod of the 16th – 18th centuries – a historical area in the center of Moscow. On the basis of generated source base, a virtual reconstruction of the dominant historical objects of Bely Gorod is built, the 3D models of which are "embedded" into historical landscape restored using a three-dimensional GIS