Slide Title
Preview
Date
1-1-1975
Description
Aerial view of Providence downtown area. Among America’s oldest cities, Providence has a special sense of place. Like its contemporaries, it has been built and rebuilt many times. Development, however, has not resulted in wholesale destruction and replacement, but in complex layering, which reveals the built legacies created by generations of earlier residents. Together, Providence, as Rhode Island’s capital city, and Newport have since the American Revolution been the state’s economic, political, social, and architectural pacesetters.
Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Themes
Downtown
Subject Headings
Aerial photography in land use -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Land use, Urban -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Providence (R.I.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.; Providence River (Providence, R.I.); United States Highway 195 (Providence, R.I.); Providence River (Providence, R.I); Dunkin Donuts Center (Providence, R.I.)
Country Name
United States
Region Name
Rhode Island
City Name
Providence
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chester, "Providence (Aerial): Looking East" (1975). Smolski Images. 85.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/85
Keywords
aerial, city planning, land use, downtown, Providence River, Dunkin Donuts Center, skyline, skyscrapers, highways, Providene River
Notes
Jordy, Buildings of Rhode Island (Oxford, 2004), 29.