“Astounding” Redlining Maps for Durham

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Preservation Durham board member and Main Street, Carolina partner Andy Edmonds contributed five columns on the impact of digital technologies on historic preservation to the Durham Herald-Sun.  In “Preservation Going Digital” he highlights Richard Marciano’s work with Depression-era “redlining” maps, and the pilot project on redlining in Durham, “Dividing Durham,” developed by graduate students in Robert Allen’s fall ’10 digital humanities class.