Abstract
Urban renewal was a project of the American government that aimed to reconstruct poorly-managed neighborhoods. Because community-level data that shows underlying mechanisms of urban renewal has not been curated systematically, due to the complexity and volume of relevant archival collections, we aim to digitally curate property acquisition documents from the urban renewal projects that affected the Southside neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina, in the form of a map-based, interactive web application. This paper presents part of the interview analysis to understand how Asheville citizens of different generations remember their neighborhood before and after the gentrifications that they have experienced. The result of this analysis provides design implications for the archival system we are developing by revealing generation-driven value structures of potential users.
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This project was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) from the University of Maryland at College Park and George Mason University. This research was supported by the Research Improvement Grant (RIG-II) from the University of Maryland’s iSchool. Also, we are grateful to faculty and students, Dr. Richard Marciano, Edel Spencer, Yuheng Zhang, Shiyun Chen, Mahitha Kalyani, Richard Bool, and Lauren Schirle, for their support for this project.
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Lee, M., Peterson, M.E., Dam, T., Challa, B., Robinson, P. (2021). Multi-generational Stories of Urban Renewal: Preliminary Interviews for Map-Based Storytelling. In: Toeppe, K., Yan, H., Chu, S.K.W. (eds) Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue. iConference 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12646. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71305-8_26
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