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SUMMARY:Focus on Faculty - Kathryn Holliday - "How Do Cities Grow?"
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 Focus on Faculty\n
 November 14, 2012\n
 Central Library 
 sixth floor parlor\n
 12 - 1:30pm\n
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 How 
 do cities grow?  \n
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 Why do we build them the 
 way we do? Who decides what buildings get built 
 - where they are and what they look like? 
 What does the architecture of our cities tell 
 us about our own cultural histories? As an 
 architecture historian, Kathryn Holliday asks 
 and answers these kinds of questions. She is 
 the author most recently of the book Ralph 
 Walker: Architect of the Century (Rizzoli, 2012) 
  and serves as the Director of the David 
 Dillon Center for Texas Architecture, an initiative 
 of the School of Architecture for research 
 and to promote public dialogue about architecture 
 and urbanism in North Texas.\n
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 This 
 lecture is part of the GIS Day annual event, 
 so Dr. Holliday will discuss a current project 
 focused on the history of DFW as stored in 
 cartographic maps and images. For the past 
 three years, Dr. Holliday and her students in 
 her course 'The Life of Cities: Modernism in 
 Context' have taken scanned maps from the UT 
 Arlington Library's Special Collections and 
 georeferenced them using ArcGIS software. \n
 By 
 overlaying these georeferenced maps atop each 
 other, students and other researchers are 
 able to begin to piece together the architectural 
 and broader history of the region. Once 
 georeferenced, Dr. Holliday's students compiled 
 metadata and converted the maps into Google 
 Earth format.  During Fall 2012 UCLA's Hypercities 
 Project (http://hypercities.com/), a 
 leader in digital humanities resources, is beginning 
 to spotlight these DFW maps.\n
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 This 
 lecture will be followed by a reception and a 
 book signing. There will be books not only by 
 Dr. Holliday, but by other participants in 
 the GIS Day activities as well. The program is 
 free and open to all. \n
 \n\n
 Price: free and open to all\n
 Sponsor: University of Arlington Library\n
 Homepage: http://www.uta.edu/library/\n
 Contact: Maggie Dwyer\n
 Phone: 817-272-5366\n
 E-Mail:: dwyer@uta.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.uta.edu/library/events/focus.php\n
LOCATION:Central Library sixth floor parlor
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