Hi Brent,
Just got done talking to our Documents Librarian and she suggested the microfiche collection called "Current Urban Documents." It is indexed in "Index to Current Urban docuemnts." There is a subject heading called Urban Renewal. Penn State's collection is just for Pennsylvania from about the mid 1980s for cities like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton. These are reports and some do contain maps. This might be a way to target some searching.
I am uploading a link to a page in the index so you can see what it looks like. https://psu.box.com/s/cqz60n63j3msihryjwd3exborg5353fy
There is also the Urban renewal directory (HH 7.8/2:968) that listings of programs by region.
I have included a few maps that I was able to find easily.
Good luck in your search.
Heather Ross
Manager, Donald W. Hamer Maps Library
Penn State University Libraries
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From: "Brent Cebul" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "MAPS-L" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 3:06:57 PM
Subject: Urban Renewal Project Maps
Greetings,
I am a research scholar at the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab. We recently completed a digital mapping project based on historical HOLC Redlining maps, titled Mapping Inequality (https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=4/36.71/-96.93&opacity=0.8). We are well underway on our next project, which will map the nearly 4,000 federally funded urban renewal projects, ca. 1949-1974. We have collected white v. non-white family displacement data, funding, and land use changes for all of the projects and are now in the process of collecting specific project maps within each renewal city.
Because these programs were administered locally, this process is proving more difficult than we’d hoped, and we are hoping to crowd source as many maps as possible. We do not need high res images – even cell phone snaps will work – and I’ve linked to some examples of project maps that are on the web. These often appeared in grant applications, newspaper articles on the program, HUD reports, and the like. We would be incredibly grateful for any images of urban renewal project maps that you could send our way. And, of course, if you know of any repositories with multiple or many maps, that information would be incredibly helpful as well. We have a trip planned to the National Archives, but a preliminary visit indicated that the maps they have are scattered throughout a several-thousand container records set.
Examples:
Temple Urban Renewal Project, Los Angeles, California (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/10/c6/4e/10c64e55196fd3b31aa99d1d9e8703cb.jpg)
Detroit Urban Renewal Projects as of 1963 (https://detroitography.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/detroit-urban-renewal-plans-e1397015133573.jpg)
Brooklyn Urban Renewal Project Area, Charlotte, NC (https://charlottemayoralcollections.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/brookshire-ur2.jpg)
Many, many thanks for any assistance.
Brent Cebul, PhD
Mellon Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Digital Scholar Lab
University of Richmond
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