From a rural development colleague: The closest I have seen people come to a useful/comprehensive description is "unbuilt environments". The title was made a bit more popular in recent years by Jonathan Payton's book of the same name which looked at various proposals schemes in northern BC - most of which did not come to fruition.
Roger Wheate, UNBC
Prince George, BC, Canada
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Subject: Re: Town planned out but never build
I <3 this thread!
I don't have any cataloging advice to offer, but Stace is correct that we included some "zombie subdivision" maps in one of our pop-up map exhibits a few years back that featured Ghost Town Maps. Here's the exhibit libguide: http://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=144208&p=2757900
Best,
Susan
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Angela R Cope <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Sue! That seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. I found a number of examples - Proposed town or just Proposed if it was a canal or railroad or like that:
Clinton (Otsego County, N.Y. : Proposed town)
Franklinville (Mason County, Ky: Proposed town) ǂv Maps.
Niagara Canal (N.Y. : Proposed) ǂv Maps.
Other actual LC terms:
City planning
Real estate development
Housing developments
Land subdivision
And then some other great suggestions:
Reply 1
I'm not a map cataloger, but could this be a "paper town" or "phantom settlement"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_settlement
Reply 2
A quick look at entries for two such maps of never-really-took-off towns in a local university library catalog shows one under the subject "Planned Communities" and the other under the subject "City Planning"
Reply 3
“Zombie Towns” might be trendy, but terms like “Abandoned Subdivisions/Towns/Developments/Communities” seem more apt and in use, e.g.:
https://wongm.com/2016/06/sunshine-north-abandoned-subdivision/
http://genealogytrails.com/iowa/marion/abandoned_towns_01.htm
Reply 4
"paper streets" as in existing on paper only. So maybe "paper cities"
Thanks everyone! You all are so great!
Angie
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It's been awhile since I've cataloged something like this. I seem to recall using either a generic term
or the specific name of the place with the parenthetical (Proposed).
Sue Haffner
CSU Fresno, retired
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 12:23 PM, David Medeiros <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
In the street mapping work of AAA etc. these are often referred to as "paper streets" as in existing on paper only. So maybe "paper cities"?
David Medeiros
Stanford Geospatial Center
On 2017-11-08 12:06, Angela R Cope wrote:
What subject heading would you use for a town that was surveyed and planned but eventually abandoned and never developed?
Extinct cities or Ghost towns just don't seem to fit.
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