Mapping Urban Change in Harrisburg, 1900-1903
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2020
Abstract
Harrisburg's City Beautiful movement dramatically transformed the urban landscape between 1900 and 1930 through the installation of new roads, water systems, and parks, and the dislocation of the communities of the Old Eighth Ward. This article applies different geospatial analytical techniques—hexagon overlay, kernel density, mean center, and directional distribution—to visualize Harrisburg's population distribution during this period and to map its growth and movements in response to these changes.
Recommended Citation
Sarvis, Albert, "Mapping Urban Change in Harrisburg, 1900-1903" (2020). Pennsylvania History Articles. 4.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/pahistory/4
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Comments
This edited collection was developed and published in tandem with the IIPT-Commonwealth Monument Project (2018-2020), with support and funding from Messiah University's Center for Public Humanities and the Council of Independent College's Humanities Research for the Public Good Grant Program.
Originally published as:
Sarvis, Albert. “Mapping Urban Change in Harrisburg, 1900–1930.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 87, no. 1 (2020): 45–65. https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.87.1.0045.