Parking Lot Construction: As part of our ongoing work to maintain and improve Central Library, the parking lot will be closed for construction from Tuesday, July 28, to Saturday, August 1. Visit the Central Library page for more details. 

Notice of Public Meeting: Kalamazoo Public Library Board of Trustees | July 27 | 5:30 pm | Central Library/Van Deusen Room. The packet of information for the meeting can be found on the library’s website. 

Book

Mapping Detroit : land, community, and shaping a city

Call Number

  • H 977.434 M2976 (CEN)

Browse similar titles by call number

Publication Information

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2015]

Physical Description

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

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.

Subjects