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HIST 267 - Mapping the American City: Metropolitan History and GIS in the 20th Century


FDR: HU
Credits: 4
This course provide students with an opportunity to consider the major spatial processes in 20th-century metropolitan history through a local lens by using historical maps, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis techniques to understand and map 20th-century Roanoke history. Specific topics may include “white flight,” industrial deconcentration, deindustrialization, suburbanization, segregation, transportation and urban renewal. Students learn to develop and test research questions as well as the foundations of geographic information science. Michelmore.





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