Mapping Detroit
Subtitle: land, community, and shaping a city
By: edited by June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering
Series: Great Lakes books; Great Lakes books
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780814340264
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Land use mapping; Maps; History
Description: One of Detriot's most defining modern characteristics--and most pressing dilemmas--is its huge amount of neglected and vacant land. In Mapping Detroit, editors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering illustrate how Detroit moved from frontier fort to thriving industrial metropolis to today's high-vacancy city. It offers a unique perspective to the historical causes, contemporary effects, and potential future of Detroit's transformed landscape.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: Introduction: land and change in Detroit / June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering; title: 1. Charting the shape of early Detroit: 1701-1838 / Brian Leigh Dunnigan; title: 2. Mapping Detroit: "The City of Holes" / Henco Bekkering and Yanjia Liu; title: 3. Redevelopment in Detroit: spatial evolution / June Manning Thomas; title: 4. Detroit: linear city / Robert Fishman; title: 5. Comparing people and places with transportation accessibility in metropolitan Detroit / Joe Grengs; title: 6. Mapping Delray: understanding changes in a southwest Detroit community / María Arquero de Alarcón and Larissa Larsen; title: 7. Remaking Brightmoor / Margaret Dewar and Robert Linn; title: - 8. Mappping the urban landscape: revealing the archipelago / Lars Gräbner; title: 9. Redesigning community with propinquity: fragments of Detroit's region / June Manning Thomas; title: Epilogue: Detroit future city / Toni L. Griffin and June Manning Thomas.