{"id":2,"date":"2016-07-12T19:58:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T19:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2016-10-15T09:50:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T13:50:20","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Waterville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ipfriedm\/files\/2016\/10\/e828583c45b52c701410769996e2aca4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ipfriedm\/files\/2016\/10\/e828583c45b52c701410769996e2aca4-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"e828583c45b52c701410769996e2aca4\" width=\"600\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\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> reconstructs pre-renewal Waterville, block-by-block, and 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<p>This is a living project: we invite your feedback and contributions.\u00a0You can contact us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mappingwaterville\/?fref=ts\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapWaterville\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0To submit materials directly to the site \u2014 your stories, photographs, or other documents \u2014 go to our\u00a0contribute page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4379,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mappingwaterville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}