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Abstract: After the VI International Conference on Urban Iconography promoted in March 2014 by the Interdepartmental Research Center on the Iconography of the European City (CIRICE) of the University of Naples Federico II and after some other recent occasions of debating about urban history (we are referring, particularly, to the Congresses EAU H 2012-2014, AISU 2013 and to the Conference “Cultural Heritage” - Rome 2014), it is evident the growing interest of historians on the Mediterranean city during the contemporary age, on its identity, structure and image since the beginning of industrialization to the post-Enlightenment and to the bourgeois age, on the issues related to the evolution / involution of the urban territory and of the post-industrial landscape, and finally on the development of the tourist model during the nineteenth and the twentieth century. Particularly we propose in this work some considerations on the meaning of ‘historic urban landscape’ and of its representation, as well as a first synthetic balance about the results of CIRICE 2014 on some subjects ranging from reading the urban types and their recurrent iconographic models to the story of the birth and development of the tourist city; from the analysis of the iconographic ‘media’ and of their sites (also virtual ones) to the digital models of representing and reconstructing the urban image; finally, from the survey on the evolution of iconography of seaside and inland cities, to the analysis of the transformations of urban landscape performed by the study of historical photography and cinematography. In this way we want also to take the opportunity offered by this event to outline the present activities and the research programs of CIRICE on the history of the European city and of its historical image.

Keywords: Urban Iconography; Historic Urban Landscape; Mediterranean City; European City