Chronology
of Research Activities
Chronology
of Research Activities
| Geography 367, Landscape Analysis: Cultural -- Settlement
Geography of
Eau Claire, was first offered as a three-week Interim course in 1978.
Enrollment has been restricted to about 21-25 students each year. Students
have collected data on various characteristics of houses in Eau Claire and
these data have been accumulated into one huge data base. The stages of
this community research project are outlined below.
The eventual purpose of this research, in addition to faculty and student publications and presentations over the years as more data are collected and analyzed, is to create a community atlas on the World Wide Web about the architectural styles, house and lot characteristics, occupational categories, and socio-economic household patterns in Eau Claire since the 1870s. |
Stages | Years | Activities | Results |
1 | 1978-1985 | 7,106 houses surveyed in the field; data collected from the City of Eau Claire's Assessor's Office records | architectural and assessment data |
2 | 1986-1992 1998 | used Eau Claire City Directories every 10 years from 1910-1980 | occupation by decade for occupants in every house surveyed; partial analysis |
3 | 1993-1995 1999 | field checked forms for each street for completeness and accuracy of the architectural, assessment, and occupational information | complete and accurate data for all the houses originally surveyed in Stage 1 |
4 | 1996-1997 | created web pages for architectural characteristics | web pages |
5 | 1998 | analyzed of city directory occupational data; mapped these data in 2002 | tables, graphs, and maps for 1910-1980 for individual streets and for the whole city for the web |
6 | 2003 |
extracted data from the US Census of Population and Housing by block, grouped block, and census tract for Eau Claire | socio-economic household data added to web |
7 | ? | statistical and cartographic analysis of the complete data base | a web-based community atlas on the internet of text, maps, tables, charts, and drawings |
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