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Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City (Great Lakes Books Series) by June Manning Thomas; Henco Bekkering; Monica Ponce de Leon; Brian Leigh Dunnigan; Yanjia Liu; Robert Fishman; Joe Grengs; Maria Arquero De Alarcon; Larissa Larsen; Margaret Dewar; Robert Linn; Lars Graebner; Toni L. Griffin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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-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 Detroit's transformed landscape. To show how Detroit arrived in its present condition, contributors in part 1, Evolving Detroit: Past to Present, trace the city'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 neighborhoods-the Brightmoor area and Southwest Detroit-that

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Author

June Manning Thomas; Henco Bekkering; Monica Ponce de Leon; Brian Leigh Dunnigan; Yanjia Liu; Robert Fishman; Joe Grengs; Maria Arquero De Alarcon; Larissa Larsen; Margaret Dewar; Robert Linn; Lars Graebner; Toni L. Griffin

Publisher

Great Lakes Books/Wayne State University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814340264

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Literary Collections