{"id":798,"date":"2020-11-01T20:22:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T01:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/?p=798"},"modified":"2020-11-01T20:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T01:22:56","slug":"map-of-the-week-detroit-street-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2020\/11\/01\/map-of-the-week-detroit-street-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of the Week: Detroit Street Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_798'] = [\n{id: 800, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3984.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3984-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2020\/11\/01\/map-of-the-week-detroit-street-map\/img_3984\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>IMG_3984<\/h1><p class=\\\"galleria-info-camera\\\">Apple iPhone 8 with iPhone 8 back camera 3.99mm f\/1.8 at 4mm and f\/1.8, 1\/15sec, ISO 100<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2020\/11\/01\/map-of-the-week-detroit-street-map\/img_3984\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'},\n{id: 801, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3985.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3985-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2020\/11\/01\/map-of-the-week-detroit-street-map\/img_3985\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>IMG_3985<\/h1><p class=\\\"galleria-info-camera\\\">Apple iPhone 8 with iPhone 8 back camera 3.99mm f\/1.8 at 4mm and f\/1.8, 1\/15sec, ISO 100<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2020\/11\/01\/map-of-the-week-detroit-street-map\/img_3985\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_798\" data-imgid=\"800\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3984.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-800\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3984-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3984-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3984-768x1228.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3984-641x1024.jpg 641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a> <a data-postid=\"fsg_post_798\" data-imgid=\"801\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3985.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-801\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3985-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3985-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3985-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_3985-1024x742.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michigan is a key swing state in this year\u2019s presidential election. Although historically democratic, the state was narrowly won by Donald Trump in 2016. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/politics\/battleground-states-trump-biden.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">recent New York Times article<\/a> picked out three of the state\u2019s counties\u2013 Macomb, Oakland, and Kent\u2013 as key areas in determining the state\u2019s election results.<\/p>\n<p>This 1966 Rand McNally\/Gulf street map of Detroit includes portions of Oakland County, one of these key swing areas; in the northernmost portion of the map, you can see the Oakland-Wayne county line. Macomb county is to the east of Oakland County, also in the greater Detroit area (although not pictured on the map). Kent county is in the western portion of the state, in the Grand Rapids area.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Michigan\u2019s significance in these elections in particular is its identity as part of the so-called \u201crust belt\u201d due to the rise and fall of the automobile industry in the state, especially in Detroit. Note the presence of car factories on this road map, the map\u2019s sponsor Gulf, and the phrase at the top of the map, \u201cpetroleum promotes progress\u201d. This phrase may not ring so true in Detroit today. How did these industrial comings and goings shape Detroit and Michigan in general, and how do these trends come to bear in electoral politics? How did the \u201cprogress\u201d promoted by industry in the area relate to categories of race and class across space?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in election mapping, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/10\/30\/opinion\/election-results-maps.html\">this brief slideshow<\/a> explaining debates in election cartography from the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good week,<\/p>\n<p>Aidan Antonienko \u201821<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan is a key swing state in this year\u2019s presidential election. Although historically democratic, the state was narrowly won by Donald Trump in 2016. A recent New York Times article picked out three of the state\u2019s counties\u2013 Macomb, Oakland, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2020\/11\/01\/map-of-the-week-detroit-street-map\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}