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Using Old Streets To Make New Inroads To Data: Part 1, Cole Hudson
Using Old Streets To Make New Inroads To Data: Part 1, Cole Hudson
Library Scholarly Publications
This presentation was given at the 2018 Code4Lib Midwest conference. It told of an ongoing project at Wayne State to digitize and convert a book full of useful street data into a digital form. This book contained information on the re-mapping of Detroit streets in 1923, and the aim of this project was to build a widely accessible web platform with which to query this information.
Constitutive Memories Of City Space: Rhetorics Of Civil Rights Memory In Detroit’S Urban Landscape, Scott Mitchell
Constitutive Memories Of City Space: Rhetorics Of Civil Rights Memory In Detroit’S Urban Landscape, Scott Mitchell
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation examines public memories of civil rights injustice and resistance as constitutive rhetorics of urban culture and spatiality for the city of Detroit. By studying the city of Detroit as it navigates an ongoing period of dramatic change and redevelopment, this study demonstrates how material manifestations of memory become the constitutive forces that define what many describe as “Detroit’s heart and soul.” This project illustrates the embedded cultural logics produced from sites of public memory, thereby arguing city spaces as locations bound to their legacies and beholden to material and symbolic consequences of their past. This dissertation proceeds through …