Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City (Great

Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City (Great Lakes Books)

One of Detroitâ€™s most defining modern characteristicsâ€”and most pressing dilemmasâ€”is its huge amount of neglected and vacant land. In Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City, editors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering use chapters based on a variety of maps to shed light on how Detroit moved from frontier fort to thriving industrial metropolis to todayâ€™s high-vacancy city. With contributors ranging from a map archivist and a historian to architects, urban designers, and urban planners, Mapping Detroit brings a unique perspective to the historical causes, contemporary effects, and potential future of Detroitâ€™s transformed landscape.

To show how Detroit arrived in its present condition, contributors in part 1, Evolving Detroit: Past to Present, trace the cityâ€™s beginnings as an agricultural, military, and trade outpost and map both its depopulation and attempts at redevelopment. In part 2, Portions of the City, contributors delve into particular land-related systems and neighborhood characteristics that encouraged modern social and economic changes. Part 2 continues by offering case studies of two city neighborhoodsâ€”the Brightmoor area and Southwest Detroitâ€”that are struggling to adapt to changing landscapes. In part 3, Understanding Contemporary Space and Potential, contributors consider both the cityâ€™s ecological assets and its sociological fragmentation to add dimension to the current understanding of its emptiness. The volumeâ€™s epilogue offers a synopsis of the major points of the 2012 Detroit Future City report, the cityâ€™s own strategic blueprint for future land use.

Mapping Detroit explores not only what happens when a large city loses its main industrial purpose and a major portion of its population but also what future might result from such upheaval. Containing some of the leading voices on Detroitâ€™s history and future, Mapping Detroit will be informative reading for anyone interested in urban studies, geography, and recent American history.
Country USA
Manufacturer Wayne State University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-03-16
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Wayne State University Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-03-16
Format	Kindle eBook

Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City (Great Lakes Books)

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