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Milwaukee's Housing Fracture: Studying Housing Submarket Disinvestment With City Information Modeling (Cim) In Milwaukee's Inner Core Housing Submarkets, 1910-1970, Kristian Vaughn May 2024

Milwaukee's Housing Fracture: Studying Housing Submarket Disinvestment With City Information Modeling (Cim) In Milwaukee's Inner Core Housing Submarkets, 1910-1970, Kristian Vaughn

Theses and Dissertations

This research conducts historic patterns analysis of the city of Milwaukee’s inner core housing submarkets from 1910-1970. The study time period captures Milwaukee in its most highly densified and industrialized state prior to suburbanization. To effectively assess the demographic, economic, spatial, and public policy implications of events in the housing submarkets, this research adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to provide a cohesive historical perspective in the city. Theoretically, this research relies on the literature about investment-disinvestment cycles, invasion-succession cycles, and the typo-morphology of the built environment. Methodologically, this research utilizes city information modeling (CIM) and digital twins to re-create conditions in …


Neighborhood Reinvestment: A Changing Community In The Urban South, Jackson Nutt-Beers May 2021

Neighborhood Reinvestment: A Changing Community In The Urban South, Jackson Nutt-Beers

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Since the mid-twentieth century, public and private actors across the country have been identifying sources of potential capital accumulation in the United States. Shortly after the passing of the Civil Rights Act by President Lyndon Johnson in the mid 1960s, many White families across the country fled the urban core for the suburbs leaving neighborhoods in the city center abandoned and without capital. During this period, Black families and other racial minority groups were forced to live in the blighted neighborhoods of the urban core due to a variety of racialized discriminatory housing practices that lead to the disinvestment of …