Lansing Urban Renewal Project

This project was created by students in Michigan State University’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) as part of RCAH 192: Urban Renewal in the spring of 2018 and added to in the spring of 2019. It seeks to tell the stories of homeowners affected by Urban Renewal and the process of redlining in Lansing, Michigan. The main focus was the area cleared for the construction of Interstate 496 from 1963-1970 and the area around the Oldsmobile/General Motors Grand River Assembly Plant. The site discusses both specific homes and general themes present in archival documents from the Stebbins Real Estate collection, located in the Forest Parke Library and Archives in Downtown Lansing.