This week, Columbus Business First featured our Ghost Neighborhoods of Columbus project. CURA director, Harvey Miller, and outreach coordinator, Gerika Logan, were interviewed to discuss what this project means for Columbus and the impact that it had on hundreds of residents. 

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.

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