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!