Industrial Heritage

Claudia Carle’s historical, visual, and textual palimpsest of the Cedar Hill Rail Yards, once among the largest railroad infrastructures in the Northeast.

Rukshan Vathupola’s website explores the local, regional, and global networks connected to the New Haven Clock Company and its factory buildings on Hamilton Street.

The demolition of a structure, especially in an urban area, can be a violent and destructive act for a neighborhood that collectively associates memories with a space as the removal constitutes an erasure of a landmark in a collective community map.  This project attempts to study a building’s end of life, and to develop a curation of decay in order to ritualize the lifecycle of a structure and enshrine th4e memories associated with a community’s past and present.  Urban change is inevitable as cities are organisms that regenerate at much faster rates; but can there be a way to

A walking tour through New Haven’s Mill River industrial heritage district.