{"id":37,"date":"2016-07-28T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2017-11-10T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:24:19","slug":"mapping-waterville-urban-renewal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/mapping-waterville-urban-renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Waterville"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"column-left\">\n<p>Project URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Project Status: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/status\/\">Prototype<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"column-right\">\n<p><em>Mapping Waterville: Urban Renewal<\/em> examines a period of profound material and economic change in the city of\u00a0Waterville, Maine.\u00a0Urban renewal in Waterville was designed to modernize the city by adapting it to the needs of the automobile, boosting downtown commerce, and\u00a0eradicating what planners called &#8220;blight&#8221; in the form of obsolete housing and industrial buildings.\u00a0Urban renewal was launched in Waterville with the advent of the Urban Renewal Authority in late 1959. It was executed through a series of projects in different parts of the city over the course of two decades: downtown (the Charles Street and Head of Falls projects), the North End, and the South End.<\/p>\n<p>Combining maps, timelines, photos, and text, <em>Mapping Waterville<\/em> visualizes the many material and spatial changes wrought by urban renewal during the 1960s and 1970s through a dynamic timeline, interactive maps, and interpretive exhibits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project URL: http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/ Project Status: Prototype Mapping Waterville: Urban Renewal examines a period of profound material and economic change in the city of\u00a0Waterville, Maine.\u00a0Urban renewal in Waterville was designed to modernize the city by adapting it to the needs of <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/mapping-waterville-urban-renewal\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":439,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}