Presented By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
Mapping Detroit: Panel Discussion and Book Launch
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents Mapping Detroit.
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 Taubman College's urban planning professor June Manning Thomas and Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) architecture professor 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 are struggling to adapt to changing landscapes. In part 3, Understanding Contemporary Space and Potential, contributors consider both the city’s ecological assets and its sociological fragmentation to add dimension to the current understanding of its emptiness. The volume’s epilogue offers a synopsis of the major points of the 2012 Detroit Future City report, a strategic blueprint for future land use.
Mapping Detroit explores not only what happens when a large city loses its main industrial purpose and a major portion of its population but also what future might result from such upheaval. Containing some of the leading voices on Detroit’s history and future, Mapping Detroit will be informative reading for anyone interested in urban studies, geography, and recent American history.
Book launch and panel discussion: March 12, 2015
Panel time: 6-7:30 p.m., with reception to follow in first floor Street gallery
Book will be available for sale following the panel
Join Professors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering, along with chapter authors, who include architecture, urban design and urban planning faculty, to discuss issues raised in the book, followed by a panel discussion and question and answer session.
Participating panelists include:
María Arquero de Alarcón, Taubman College assistant professor of architecture and urban planning and design
Henco Bekkering (co-editor), Delft University of Technology professor emeritus of urban design at the School of Architecture
Robert Fishman, Taubman College professor in architecture and urban planning
Lars Graebner, Taubman College assistant professor of practice in architecture
Joe Grengs, Taubman College associate professor of urban planning
June Thomas (co-editor), Ph.D., FAICP, Taubman College centennial professor of urban planning
For more about the book's editors:
June Manning Thomas, Ph.D., FAICP, is Centennial Professor in the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan. She is the author of several books including Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Wayne State University Press, 2013) and co-editor with Margaret Dewar of The City after Abandonment. She is also the president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 2013-2015.
Henco Bekkering has been a practitioner in urban design and planning in the Netherlands for more than thirty years and is a professor emeritus of urban design at the School of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. He has been a visiting professor at Taubman College, University of Michigan, and at the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Contributors Include:
Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Henco Bekkering, Yanjia Liu, June Manning Thomas, Robert Fishman, Joe Grengs, Maria Arquero de Alarcon, Larissa Larsen, Margaret Dewar, Robert Linn (MUP '11), Lars Graebner, Toni L. Griffin
About the book (available March 2015): http://wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/mapping-detroit
Event generously Co-sponsored by Wayne State University Press
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 Taubman College's urban planning professor June Manning Thomas and Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) architecture professor 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 are struggling to adapt to changing landscapes. In part 3, Understanding Contemporary Space and Potential, contributors consider both the city’s ecological assets and its sociological fragmentation to add dimension to the current understanding of its emptiness. The volume’s epilogue offers a synopsis of the major points of the 2012 Detroit Future City report, a strategic blueprint for future land use.
Mapping Detroit explores not only what happens when a large city loses its main industrial purpose and a major portion of its population but also what future might result from such upheaval. Containing some of the leading voices on Detroit’s history and future, Mapping Detroit will be informative reading for anyone interested in urban studies, geography, and recent American history.
Book launch and panel discussion: March 12, 2015
Panel time: 6-7:30 p.m., with reception to follow in first floor Street gallery
Book will be available for sale following the panel
Join Professors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering, along with chapter authors, who include architecture, urban design and urban planning faculty, to discuss issues raised in the book, followed by a panel discussion and question and answer session.
Participating panelists include:
María Arquero de Alarcón, Taubman College assistant professor of architecture and urban planning and design
Henco Bekkering (co-editor), Delft University of Technology professor emeritus of urban design at the School of Architecture
Robert Fishman, Taubman College professor in architecture and urban planning
Lars Graebner, Taubman College assistant professor of practice in architecture
Joe Grengs, Taubman College associate professor of urban planning
June Thomas (co-editor), Ph.D., FAICP, Taubman College centennial professor of urban planning
For more about the book's editors:
June Manning Thomas, Ph.D., FAICP, is Centennial Professor in the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan. She is the author of several books including Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Wayne State University Press, 2013) and co-editor with Margaret Dewar of The City after Abandonment. She is also the president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 2013-2015.
Henco Bekkering has been a practitioner in urban design and planning in the Netherlands for more than thirty years and is a professor emeritus of urban design at the School of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. He has been a visiting professor at Taubman College, University of Michigan, and at the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Contributors Include:
Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Henco Bekkering, Yanjia Liu, June Manning Thomas, Robert Fishman, Joe Grengs, Maria Arquero de Alarcon, Larissa Larsen, Margaret Dewar, Robert Linn (MUP '11), Lars Graebner, Toni L. Griffin
About the book (available March 2015): http://wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/mapping-detroit
Event generously Co-sponsored by Wayne State University Press
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