This week, the Columbus Dispatch featured our Ghost Neighborhoods of Columbus project. This article also featured residents from the area, who could recall the highway system going in. 

"I thought they were going to take our church," said the now 66-year-old South Linden resident. "It was just a big hole in the ground." And I-71 cut off her neighborhood from Downtown, she said. -Voszi Douglas

The Ghost Neighborhoods project will highlight these lost and damaged neighborhoods by using machine learning/artificial intelligence techniques to extract data from the Sanborn maps to create populate a GIS database, allowing the creation of 3D visualizations and support spatial analysis. The 3D visualization will show existing and demolished structures. The figure below shows one of the first visualizations produced by the research team: buildings in Hanford Village in 1961.  The blue double lines show what is now I-70, and the red buildings are those that were destroyed by its construction.

Read the full article below!