In the space where a community once lived, only fragments of memory remain. At Ohio State, those fragments are being transformed into immersive 3D landscapes that restore depth to places long erased from the map.
The Ghost Neighborhoods Project by the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, or CURA, is a digital reconstruction that resurrects the lost streetscapes of Black communities destroyed by highway construction.
According to the project’s website, the 1956 National Interstate and Defense Highway Act systematically fractured and erased vibrant Black communities to make room for interstate highways…