Caroline Murphy
@caromurph7.bsky.social
early modernist / MIT Architecture / history of environments, water, building, early political economy
How did Renaissance states track and record floods? At what point did these disasters go from being thought of as one-offs to signs of a more systemic crisis? I enjoyed thinking through these and similar questions in my work on Florentine water maps, out now with Grey Room!
doi.org/10.1162/grey...
doi.org/10.1162/grey...
Drawing the Disordered River in Late-Renaissance Tuscany
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July 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
How did Renaissance states track and record floods? At what point did these disasters go from being thought of as one-offs to signs of a more systemic crisis? I enjoyed thinking through these and similar questions in my work on Florentine water maps, out now with Grey Room!
doi.org/10.1162/grey...
doi.org/10.1162/grey...