Columbia University
october, 2021
Event Details
Website Launch: Mapping Historical New York
Dept. of History and Center for Spatial Research GSAPP
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 Time: 12 noon Place: Virtual
Please register here.
The interactive map visualizes Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s transformations during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Drawing on 1850, 1880, and 1910 census data, it shows how migration, residential, and occupational patterns shaped the city.
The Digital Atlas breaks new ground by locating each person counted in the Census at their home address, sometimes before the street grid was even established. Thus far, the maps include 6.5 million unique census records for 1850, 1880, and 1910, matched to home locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn. This is an ongoing project that will expand to include all five boroughs up to the 1940 census over the next three years.
This project is the result of a multi-year interdisciplinary collaboration between Columbia University’s Department of History and the Center for Spatial Research at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, and funded by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.
Event Details:
The Launch will be hosted as a virtual event on Wednesday, October 27th, 2021 from noon – 1.30 pm.
Please register here.
Co-Principal Investigators:
Gergely Baics, Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies, Helman Faculty Chair of Urban Studies, Barnard College
Rebecca Kobrin, Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History, Columbia University
Laura Kurgan, Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Director, Center for Spatial Research, Columbia University
Leah Meisterlin, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University, Team leader
Project Leaders:
Wright Kennedy, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of History
Dan Miller, Research Associate at the Center for Spatial Research, GSAPP
Web Design and Development by Stamen:
Eric Brelsford, Lead Design Technologist
D. Vinay Dixit, Director of Client Services
Nicolette Hayes, Design Director
Inhye Lee, Design Technologist
Bernardo Loureiro, Design Technologist
Eric Rodenbeck, Founder and Creative Director