Urban Sustainability Project
Freedom Farmers by Call Number: ebook chapterISBN: 9781469643694Publication Date: 2019-01-14Chapter: Drawing on the Past to a Food Sovereign Future: The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
- Urban Agriculture in MichiganState of Michigan report on chemical contamination potential in urban and industrial properties, and impact on growing food and safe crops.
- Science Policy Network DetroitEstablished in 2020, the Science Policy Network- Detroit (SciPol-Detroit), is a group that aims to bridge the gap between policy makers and scientists
- Detroit Environmental JusticeThier mission is to empower and give people of color and low-income residents in Detroit and beyond, the tools they needed to educate, advocate, and organize for cleaner, healthier communities and environments.
- Detroit Future CityAn independent think tank, policy advocate and innovation engine focused on the future of the city and the implementation of strategies that advance the recommendations laid out in the Detroit Future City Strategic Framework.
- Oral Histories from Detroit's Cass CorridorAn oral history created as part of a Wayne State University Libraries and University Art Collection collaborative project, to document Cass Corridor culture during the 1960s-1980s.
- The Alley ProjectReport on TAP and the graffiti art project in Southwest Detroit.
To Light a FireCall Number: ebookISBN: 9780814341179Publication Date: 2015-08-17The InsideOut Literary Arts Project (iO) began in 1995 in five Detroit high schools, with weekly classroom visits by a writer-in-residence, the publication of a literary journal for each school, and the mission of encouraging students to use poetry to "think broadly, create bravely, and share their voices with the wider world."
Find documentaries and other film resources using Kanopy Streaming.
For example, The United State of Detroit: The Power of Community Action in Detroit
- WDET Parks ProjectA series of stories from WDET about parks and recreation spaces across Detroit.
- United Community Housing CoalitionThis organization provides housing to the city's low income residents. Their mission is to help low-income residents stay in their homes and strengthen their communities, through representation, support, and ownership.
- Urban InstituteUrban Institute reports on Detroit Housing
Urban Sustainability Project Subfields
- Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new windowThis database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies..Start with a general search for Detroit and see where it takes you.
- Institute for Detroit StudiesThis project is part of the Center for Arts and Culture @ Marygrove. It makes Detroit-focused research and creative work about Detroit available to scholars, policy-makers, the media, and the general public.
- Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowContains bibliographical references with abstracts in English from life sciences research journals published worldwide.
- Detroit Biodiversity NetworkProjects that support and improve the sustainability of urban ecosystems on Wayne State University’s campus and in surrounding Detroit communities.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Start with the Advanced Search, use Detroit as your search term, and select Archeology under the Journal Filter.
- Digital Public Library or America ExhibitionsThe Digital Public Library of American (DPLA) is an extensive online archive of primary source materials, including pamphlets, documents, images and more.
This link takes you to a listing of the DPLA's exhibitions. Use the search box to look for materials in this collection. Try terms like "urban policy" "city planning" "block clubs" to get an idea of the kinds of materials you can find here. - Virtual Motor CityiImages from the Detroit News Photograph Collection, which primarily documents the city of Detroit, its people, places and events from the late 19th century through the 1980s.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new windowAccess to the world's literature on language and language behavior. Use the 360 link to full-text to get to articles or request them through Interlibrary Loan for free.
- Historical NewspapersNewspapers can provide a window on how issues were reflected regionally, including the vernacular of the time.
- African American Newspapers 1827-1998A database of African American newspapers from across the United States dating back to 1827.
Language Diversity in the USA by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780521768528Publication Date: 2010What are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who speaks them, to whom, and for what purposes? What changes do these languages undergo as they come into contact with English? This book investigates the linguistic diversity of the USA by profiling the twelve most commonly used languages other than English.
