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Cover 1 Title page, Copyright 2 Contents 7 Foreword 9 Preface 11 Introduction: Land and Change in Detroit 15 1. Charting the Shape of Early Detroit: 1701￢ﾀﾓ1838 29 2. Mapping Detroit: ￢ﾀﾜThe City of Holes￢ﾀﾝ 39 3. Redevelopment in Detroit: Spatial Evolution 63 4. Detroit: Linear City 87 5. Comparing People and Places with Transportation Accessibility in Metropolitan Detroit 111 6. Mapping Delray: Understanding Changes in a Southwest Detroit Community 125 7. Remaking Brightmoor 153 8. Mapping the Urban Landscape: Revealing the Archipelago 177 9. Redesigning Community with Propinquity: Fragments of Detroit￢ﾀﾙs Region 197 Epilogue: Detroit Future City 217 Contributors 241 Index 245 Publisher:Wayne State University Press,Published:2015,ISBN:9780814340271,Related ISBN:9780814340264,Language:English,OCLC:908127338 One of Detroit’s most defining modern characteristics—and most pressing dilemmas—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 today’s high-v

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Author

Bekkering, Henco;Thomas, June Manning

Publisher

Great Lakes Books/Wayne State University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814340271

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Literary Collections