“All the world’s a stage”: A GIS framework for recreating personal time-space from qualitative and quantitative sources

This article presents a methodological model for the study of the space‐time patterns of everyday life. The framework utilizes a wide range of qualitative and quantitative sources to create two environmental stages, social and built, which place and contextualize the daily mobilities of individuals as they traverse urban environments. Additionally, this study outlines a procedure to fully integrate narrative sources in a GIS. By placing qualitative sources, such as narratives, within a stage‐based GIS, researchers can begin to tell rich spatial stories about the lived experiences of segregation, social interaction, and environmental exposure. The article concludes with a case study utilizing the diary of a postal clerk to outline the wide applicability of this model for space‐time GIS research

Machine-Readable Data Production by the Federal Government

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68228/2/10.1177_000276427601900402.pd

Historic preservation =community revitalization: new beginnings for Carolina Piedmont textile towns.

By studying the impact of vacant textile mill buildings on communities, the researcher showed how historic preservation played a role in combating the effects of vacancy. Using a framework of community indicators, quality of life and economic conditions during the last two decades of the twentieth century were measured in three Carolina Piedmont textile towns: Albemarle, North Carolina, Morganton, North Carolina and Spartanburg, South Carolina. Through these case studies, the researcher sought to illustrate the effects that the textile industry’s decline had on mill communities in the areas of economic viability, stability, heritage value, educational attainment and standard of living. She then explored how the rehabilitation of the large mill complexes that the industry left behind can help to reverse the effects of abandonment. This thesis provides concrete evidence of the impacts that the decline of the Southern textile industry had on the communities that it once sustained. The case studies of three communities with rehabilitated textile mill complexes can help communities who are faced with the same circumstances generate ideas and plans to use the historic built environment as a catalyst for community change

Celebrating Wetland Foodways: Joining Ecosystems & Cultures on the Louisiana Gulf Coast

Coastal Louisiana is bountiful in cultural and ecological diversity. Spotted with thriving estuaries, meandering bayous and swamps, and rippling grasses of coastal marshes, these wetland ecosystems sequester carbon, purify floodwaters, and buffer against storm surge. Historically, southern wetland landscapes have offered refuge to people of many folk and ethnic traditions escaping violence and oppression. Until the mid-twentieth century, the people living in present-day Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes enjoyed relative isolation from the rest of America, constructing cultural practices that emphasized attachment to wetland plants, animals, and ecosystem dynamics. Today, changing environmental conditions and high rates of relative sea level rise are causing rapid land loss and habitat destruction, forcing people to reluctantly move inland, “up the bayou.” Wetland ecosystem decline brings increasing vulnerability to hurricanes and flooding, and erodes connections to places, landscapes, and ecosystems central to people’s sense of identity and traditions. This erasure constitutes environmental injustice, separating peoples from their socioecological contexts and their ways of being in the world. To encourage cultural continuity in the face of environmental change, this thesis looks to expand access to wetland ecosystems in receiver communities up the bayou, imagining renewed domestic relationships between homes and wetlands. It explores the unique and plural ways of relating to the environment through the study of endemic foodways – food-related traditions that link cultures with geography and are common to the expression of identity. It celebrates and highlights these cultural relationships by mapping samples of wetland foodway traditions from three folk groups – Cajun, Houma Indian, and Black folks – in present-day Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. Building from local knowledge and resilience projects presented during the 2017 – 2019 the Louisiana Strategic Adaptation’s for Future Environments (LA SAFE) planning process, it draws from oral histories and archival documents, interviews, and literatures on landscape justice and place attachment to propose design strategies that support the continuation of wetland foodway traditions as the sea continues to rise

Native Americans and the U. S. Census: A Brief Historical Survey

This article traces the history of the enumeration of American Indians by the U.S. Census Bureau and its predecessors. It considers the social and political background of the census and the reasons that Native Americans were not counted by the census until 1890. It also examines the changes in the enumeration and definition of Native Americans—key concepts needed to provide effective reference service for users of Census Bureau data

Reconstructing the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Daily Life in the 19th Century City: A Historical GIS Approach

In recent years, historians and historical geographers have become interested in the use of GIS to study historical patterns, populations, and phenomena. The result has been the emergence of a new discipline, historical GIS. Despite the growing use of GIS across geography and history, the use of GIS in historical research has been limited largely to visualization of historical records, database management, and simple pattern analysis. This is, in part, due to a lack of accessible research on methodologies and spatial frameworks that outline the integration of both quantitative and qualitative historical sources for use in a GIS environment. The first objective of this dissertation is to develop a comprehensive geospatial research framework for the study of past populations and their environments. The second objective of this dissertation is to apply this framework to the study of daily life in the nineteenth-century city, an important area of scholarship for historical geographers and social historians. Other daily life studies have focused on various experiences of daily life, from domestic duties and child rearing to social norms and the experience of work in early factories. An area that has received little attention in recent years is the daily mobility of individuals as they moved about the ‘walking city’. This dissertation advances our understanding of the diurnal patterns of daily life by recreating the journey to work for thousands of individuals in the city of London, Ontario, and its suburbs in the late nineteenth century. Methodologies are created to capture past populations, their workplaces, and their relationship to the environments they called home. Empirical results outline the relationship between social class, gender, and the journey to work, as well as how social mobility was reflected through the quality of individuals’ residential and neighbourhood environments. The results provide a new perspective on daily mobility, social mobility, and environment in the late nineteenth-century city. Results suggest that individuals who were able to be upwardly socially mobile did so at the expense of substantial increases in their journey to work

An Empirical Exploration of Southeast Asian American Residential Patterns in the San Francisco Bay Area (2000–2019)

This paper explores three methods of reporting residential patterns: (1) concentration profiles, (2) density maps, and (3) proximity profiles. I analyze U.S. Census data to map and evaluate the residential patterns for Southeast Asian Americans in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. Drawing from the field of urban planning, I report two measures of segregation and concentration (a) dissimilarity indices and (b) spatial proximity indices, and I discuss their limitations. Since mapping and spatial statistics are essential to understanding the histories, development, and advancement of Southeast Asian American communities, it is important to promote their broad usage. The paper\u27s findings lend evidence to three arguments: (1) pioneering moments (the establishment of new immigrant communities) can in fact start path dependent community growth, (2) clustering and dispersion to some extent can be predicted by classic theories of spatial assimilation, but new dynamics are playing out in today’s communities from Asian and Latino origins, including Southeast Asian American communities, and (3) residential clustering cases are circumstantial, dependent on unique local circumstances

“I have a job... but you can’t make a living”: How County Economic Context Shapes Residents’ Livelihood Strategies

This study explores how rural residents’ livelihood strategies are shaped by community economic and population characteristics. We use qualitative data from interviews and focus groups with low-income residents and social service providers (N=85 participants) in two rural New England counties to understand livelihood strategies within rural places. We then employ quantitative data to understand how these strategies are shaped by local historical labor markets and demographic characteristics. Although one county attracts wealthy retirees, with corresponding work opportunities in the service sector, and the other is remote and losing population, low-income workers in both places are struggling to make ends meet. We suggest that work-promoting public policies incorporate a nuanced approach that considers not only how to support rural workforce development, but also how to develop economic opportunities while attending to the complex variation between rural places