Mapping Detroit : land, community, and shaping a city / edited by June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thomas, June Manning, editor.

Bekkering, Henco, editor.

Series:

Great Lakes books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use mapping--Michigan--Detroit.

Land use mapping.

Detroit (Mich.)--Maps.

Detroit (Mich.).

Detroit (Mich.)--History.

Michigan--Detroit.

Genre:

Maps.

Physical Description:

xi, 243 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 22 x 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2015]

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

Introduction: land and change in Detroit / June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering

1. Charting the shape of early Detroit: 1701-1838 / Brian Leigh Dunnigan

2. Mapping Detroit: "The City of Holes" / Henco Bekkering and Yanjia Liu

3. Redevelopment in Detroit: spatial evolution / June Manning Thomas

4. Detroit: linear city / Robert Fishman

5. Comparing people and places with transportation accessibility in metropolitan Detroit / Joe Grengs

6. Mapping Delray: understanding changes in a southwest Detroit community / María Arquero de Alarcón and Larissa Larsen

7. Remaking Brightmoor / Margaret Dewar and Robert Linn

- 8. Mappping the urban landscape: revealing the archipelago / Lars Gräbner

9. Redesigning community with propinquity: fragments of Detroit's region / June Manning Thomas

Epilogue: Detroit future city / Toni L. Griffin and June Manning Thomas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814340264

0814340261

OCLC:

891609596