Urban Renewal in Seneca Village: Using Digital Network Mapping to Examine Community Relationships
Kaytlin Ernske & Sophia Lopez
What Is Urban Renewal?
The redevelopment of neighborhoods within urban settings, typically involving the clearance of “slums”
The Power of Eminent Domain: From Seneca Village to Central Park
For more info on Seneca Village
What We’ve Been Working On
Property Sales Deeds Tracking
Central Park Damage Petitions
Network Analysis Data Set
Whitehead - Stillwell - 241 - 314 - 18280000.pdf Mary Quinn - Heirs of Joseph Quinn.pdf
● Open source software
● Originally for biological research
● Visualizing “molecules” into
networks
● Integrating networks with other
data and annotations
Making sense of the data...
Making Sense of the Data...
● Stanford Humanities + Design
● Web platform
● Accessible and user friendly
● Organizing and visualizing
● historical complex data
Palladio
Looking forward...
Discussion Questions1. In your own research, would it be helpful to map interpersonal
relationships in a community? What would it show? 2. What other ways can we visualize and examine interpersonal
connections from primary source documents? 3. How do these tools provide insight on how current cities and
communities work?
Thank you!