Picturing Simmons Row: New Heritage Strategies for Interpreting Relicts of the Bottom in Wake Forest, North Carolina
Through this research, I propose an interpretive intervention focusing on Simmons Row, a demolished row of working-class tenant housing and relict of “the Bottom,” as understood by the landscape architect Ujiji Davis, in the Northeast Community of Wake Forest, North Carolina. Today, the Ailey Young...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | English |
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
01-01-2022
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| Summary: | Through this research, I propose an interpretive intervention focusing on Simmons Row, a demolished row of working-class tenant housing and relict of “the Bottom,” as understood by the landscape architect Ujiji Davis, in the Northeast Community of Wake Forest, North Carolina. Today, the Ailey Young House stands as the sole surviving remnant of Simmons Row, with little other visible, tangible evidence to suggest its former landscape context. To address this problem, I undertake a nine-step process of abductive reasoning in order to ascertain what, if any, new heritage interpretation approach might be merited. My hope is that the results of this research may not only equip a future project team with the tools needed to critically visualize Simmons Row but may also inform parallel strategies for interpreting relict sites elsewhere in the Northeast Community and other Black vernacular homespaces similarly neglected, overlooked, and undervalued by the authorized heritage discourse. |
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| ISBN: | 9798845430090 |