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Title: Article Navigation “Time and Change Will Surely Show”: Contested Urban Development in Ohio State’s University District, 1920–2015

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: This article examines the relationships between Ohio State University and the surrounding urban University District neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio, between 1920–2015. A mythic chronology of “rise and fall” marks university and community memory and conversations about the district, past and present. Interrogating the demographic, architectural, and historic underpinnings of this contested chronology, I explore the differences between Ohio State’s discourse and neighborhood activists’ and residents’ conceptions of neighborhood change and various aspects of a golden-age myth. In particular, I focus upon the interplay between demography, imagery, and memory or between population changes, architectural changes, and various actors’ perceptions and memories of such changes. Significant moments in the twentieth-century interactions between the neighborhoods and the university, especially contested urban renewal, suggest a complex set of relationships between a large urban land-grant institution and its neighboring urban area.

Url: https://academic.oup.com/jsh/article/51/4/1069/3988379

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Authors: Manovich, Ellen, L

Periodical (Full): Journal of Social History

Issue: 4

Volume: 51

Pages: 1069-1099

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Land Use/Urban Organization

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