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J.
Mark Souther, Ph.D.
Rhodes Tower 1904
Department of History
Cleveland State University
Spring Semester 2007
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Project
Topic List—Descriptions
of each project topic
Project
Topic List with Relevant Oral Histories—Your
quick guide to finding which interviews to use in InterClipper; use this
first, then the time log below to determine what material you need to
access in InterClipper
Oral
History Time Log—Includes
interviews in InterClipper AND many more that are available for listening
upon request—some
also have transcripts available
Other
Interesting Links
Northeast
Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing (NEOCANDO)—Source
for demographic statistics & interactive maps
The
History of Riverside—Interactive
site about Riverside, Illinois, a 19th-century planned suburb
Curating the
City: Wilshire Blvd.—Interactive
tour of L.A.'s famous street
Images
of Empire State Plaza—One
of the most famous urban renewal projects, located in Albany, NY
Index
of Art Historical Sites—Lots
of great images of modernist architecture of the urban renewal period,
among other styles
"Annals
of Commerce: The Terrazzo Jungle," by Malcolm Gladwell—Great
article on Victor Gruen, inventor of the modern shopping mall, in New
Yorker, March 15, 2004
Reston Historic
Trust & Storefront Museum of Suburban History—Nice
photos, watercolor renderings, and schematics of one of the leading suburban
new-town communities of the 1960s
The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit—Interactive
tours of Detroit after deindustrialization, focusing on its built environment
This
image from Peaceful Shaker Village, a late-1920s promotional
booklet for the planned Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Shaker Heights, shows
fanciful houses in the clouds, ostensibly linked to downtown Cleveland
as symbolized by the Terminal Tower. It suggests a hopeful vision of an
urban future in which downtown and suburb could coexist harmoniously—a
vision which proved illusive.
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