LSU Geography 2010

On this map I have created a driving route and used polygons to section off plots of land as a focus. I have divided up my investigation into 6 places. The 6 places I have chosen are "Highland Road Homes", "LSU Lake Homes", "Downtown Highland", "The Bottoms", "Garden District", and "Government/Florida Blvd Homes". Through Lewis's article  Axioms  I have investigated these places using The Axiom of Landscape as Clue to Culture. Within the Clue to Culture Axiom, I am focusing on The Regional Corollary and the reasons one part of Baton Rouge looks so different from another part of Baton Rouge. By examining the Highland Road homes and LSU Lakes homes and comparing them to the "Downtown Highland" and the "Bottoms" there is a striking difference between the homes and style of homes. One of the reasons for this is the old, large plantation homes created off Highland. Many of these homes are historical and...

This is the map I will use as my guide during my field project. On this map I have created a driving route and used polygons to section off plots of land I should focus on during this project. I have divided up my investigation into 6 places. The 6 places I have chosen are "Highland Road Homes", "LSU Lake Homes", "Downtown Highland", "The Bottoms", "Garden District", and "Government/Florida Blvd Homes". I will use Lewis's article Axioms  to investigate these places. The axiom I will be focused on is The Axiom of Landscape as Clue to Culture. Within the Clue to Culture Axiom, I am focusing on The Regional Corollary and the reasons one part of Baton Rouge looks so different from another part of Baton Rouge.

Place is impacted by, responds to, and changes through natural disaster. In 2010 Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital city, was impacted by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 Mw. This destroyed many buildings and features, and the way the global community responded effected people's viewpoint of Haiti as a place. There were over 220,000 reported fatalities from this disaster. One of the buildings destroyed was the Palais National. This is the Haitian equivalent of the U.S.'s "White House". This building was completely ruined, as can be seen through images on the attached map. This presidential home was left as rubble, and not demolished or cleared until two years later in 2012. The National Penitentiary was also effected severely by the 2010 Earthquake. This natural disaster damaged the penitentiary building holding Haiti's most wanted criminals. Once the building was destroyed, many dangerous felons were able to escape the prison. It is recorded that more...

This map depicts the travels of a slave ship corralling to the weather patterns of hurricanes in the year 1898. This shows the stops and routes the slave ship had to take in order to avoid hurricanes and leave according to weather patterns. Categories of hurricane severity and mapped according to symbol and color. The pushpin symbols locate positions of the slave ship per day and the color depicts the number of slaves who died that day during the travels. The slave trade ports are marked on the map as well. All of this information shows the movement of people across regions. This is defined as mobility. In Garreau's The Human Mosaic , mobility is described as the movement of people, ideas, practices, and technologies around space. In this map, we can see the movement of people and goods across the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean acts as a permeable barrier. A permeable barrier is a barrier that allows part of the innovation wave to move through, but acts to weaken the co...