The History Of American Cities

The National Trust for Historic Preservation provides data on the edifice historic menses together with historic monuments of American cities. Their Atlas of ReUrbanism includes a serial of interactive map which visualize a host of historical data well-nigh a position out of American cities. The maps include data on the relative edifice historic menses of metropolis neighborhoods, the location of nationally registered historic places, historic & cultural monuments together with historic districts.

So far interactive maps together with fact sheets are available for x cities. By the summertime fifty cities volition survive available inwards the Atlas. Each metropolis map provides a visualization of a city's National Trust 'Character Score'. The Character Score of metropolis neighborhoods is based on the median historic menses of buildings, the multifariousness of the historic menses of buildings together with the size of buildings inwards the neighborhood.

The Character Score layer provides an overview of where the city's older districts are located. The Cultural Resources tab on each metropolis interactive map allows you lot to add together other historic data to the metropolis map. These layers include data on the location of listed buildings, historical monuments together with nationally & locally registered districts.