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Invincible Cities, http://invinciblecities.camden.rutgers.edu/. Sponsored by the Mid- Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey. Reviewed Nov. 2006.

Howard Gillette, the director of the Mid- Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, and the photographer Camilo José Vergara have collaborated on an interactive Web site entitled Invincible Cities. The site combines short essays by Vergara and an introductory essay on Camden, New Jersey, by Gillette with hundreds of Vergara's photographs. Vergara is interested in "documenting the evolution of the ghetto over time" in order to demonstrate that the "declining inner city" is an inadequate framework for understanding the "flux" of America's urban landscape. The site takes Camden and Richmond, California, as visual laboratories for the exploration of patterns in the built environment. Street maps on the left of the screen allow the user to pan to specific neighborhoods and blocks, while photographs on the right of the screen (some in time sequence over a period of years) record the buildings, parks, brown fields, and streetscapes of those spaces. The effect is a multilayered archaeology of the modern city, from its densely packed street markets and its recycled strip malls to its patchwork of abandoned properties, boarded storefronts, and aging row houses.

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