Urban Absorption

Abstract

I learned a lot about New Bedford by talking to residents and community leaders, but looking at some very old maps and walking the streets helped as well. The Sanborn Fire Insurance maps presented in Chap. 6 provide a compelling view of how policy responses during the urban renewal period (and prior) coincided with physical changes in the form of the three study neighborhoods. In this chapter, I go further by bringing in more current mapping data to better correspond with the more contemporary policy responses described in Chap. 7.