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Apr 16, 2026
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CNX 110 - Digital City
Description
The city is a material text that contains the imprints of human action written in stone, brick, and mortar. Unlike literature, art, music, dance, and other products of human culture, the city is embedded in lived reality and cannot be read by a single language (words, colors, sounds, motion). The class will develop two sets of skills, the critical reading of discreet traditional sources and the integration of these sources into a digital platform. First, we will learn how to read a multiplicity of primary sources required to reconstruct the city. They include historical narratives in books, oral testimonies in audio, spatial narratives in maps, visual records in photography, tabular data in census records, and, most importantly, the language of material culture. Second, the diversity of these primary sources about a single neighborhood in Lancaster will be integrated in a digital geo-spatial platform, which will cultivate digital literacy in Geographic Information Systems, 3D-modeling, and digital story telling. Using the city of Lancaster as a laboratory, we will study how social space is produced through experienced realities and how race, class, and ethnicity intersect in the American city. Students must be willing to walk through in Lancaster, participate in the excavation of its physical fabric, engage with its diverse local community and translate those experiences in the computer lab, where they will learn software like ArcGIS, SketchUp, and Agisoft.
Credits: 1
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