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Baton Rouge Field Map



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.

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