Speculative Monuments for Philadelphia

Description

This data describes proposals for future monuments collected from Philadelphia residents and visitors to during Monument Lab events in May 2015 and Autumn 2017. Each proposal was transcribed and analyzed by the Monument Lab team, and is identified with the location of the proposed monument. In May 2015, 450 proposals were collected from residents and visitors during a three week exhibition in the City Hall courtyard. In Autumn 2017, 4,500 proposals were collected from residents and visitors during a citywide exhibition held at 10 sites. Each proposal is identified by the location of the proposed monutment and include age and zip code of the proposer.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
8 monuments.csv https://github.com/MonumentLab/Philadelphia-2017-data/raw/refs/heads/main/monuments.csv
8 monument_lab_master.csv https://github.com/MonumentLab/Philadelphia-2015-data/raw/refs/heads/main/monument_lab_master.csv
15 https://github.com/MonumentLab/Philadelphia-2015-data/raw/refs/heads/main/monument_lab_master.geojson
25 monument_lab_master.kml https://github.com/MonumentLab/Philadelphia-2015-data/raw/refs/heads/main/monument_lab_master.kml
15 https://github.com/MonumentLab/Philadelphia-2017-data/raw/refs/heads/main/monuments.geojson
61 proposals-shapefile.zip https://github.com/MonumentLab/Philadelphia-2017-data/raw/refs/heads/main/proposals-shapefile.zip
61 monument_lab_master.zip https://github.com/MonumentLab/Philadelphia-2015-data/raw/refs/heads/main/monument_lab_master.zip

Tags

  • history
  • monuments
  • arts
  • public-art
  • culture

Topics

  • Local Government

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