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Self-Provisioning Cities: A Mapping Project

Kate Brown, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society

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    SHASS Affiliated Projects

  • Year

    Spring 2021

Kate Brown, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, joined AFUP to work on Self-Provisioning Cities: A Mapping Project, which seeks to re-create self-provisioning food systems (i.e. chicken coops, gardens, pastures, etc.) of two African American neighborhoods of Washington, DC and Detroit, MI from 1900 to 1950. The project will develop a spatial representation of what people in these neighborhoods grew and ate, how much they produced, and how these neighborhoods changed over time.

Children stand against a wall in a segregated neighborhood.

Student Team

  • Zander Bamford-Brown

  • Kimberley Cheng

  • Brooke Dodrill

  • Isaiah Jeremie

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