Espacializar la historia: Una apuesta metodológica para repensar la historia urbana

This article gathers some of the theoretical-methodological reflections derived from the project “Trajectories, journeys and paths on the urban history of Medellin”. In this sense, we start from two complementary but differentiated exercises that thread the discussions: the elaboration of a balance of the historiographic production on Urban History in the city of Medellin and the bet for the construction of a geographic viewer where this information can be spatialized and additional data relevant to this area can be added. In theoretical terms, we start from the question of the importance of incorporating a critical look at space within urban history. In terms of methodological proposals, five stand out: 1) the integration of space and time through a spatio-temporal line; 2) the use of the analog geographical viewer as a research tool and product; 3) the potential of digital humanities for urban history and the dissemination of knowledge; 4) the need to approach urban history in a transdisciplinary key; and 5) the richness of the concept of “geographical imagination” to critically examine spatial representations in historical sources.