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Title: Open Data and Racial Segregation: Mapping the Historic Imprint of Racial Covenants and Redlining on American Cities.

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2020

ISBN: 978-981-13-6604-8

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6605-5_3

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Abstract: This chapter explores Open Data through a historic lens, reviewing public history projects in the United States that are visualising historic mechanisms for maintaining racial segregation in U.S. cities during the first half of the twentieth century. The layering of data (housing covenants, demographic data, historic maps) reveals the relationship of these mechanisms—specifically racial covenants and federal government “redlining” maps—to current inequality and segregation. These projects not only serve to increase the transparency of private and governmental housing policies that have served to racially segregate American cities but also demonstrate how historic data, provided openly to the public, can inform contemporary discussions around equitable urban development.

Url: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-6605-5_3

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Authors: Bakelmun, Ashley; Shoenfeld, Sarah, J

Editors: Hawken, Scott; Han, Hoon; Pettit, Chris

Pages: 57-83

Volume Title: Open Cities | Open Data

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publisher Location: Singapore

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Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography, Race and Ethnicity

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