TY - JOUR
T1 - Use of business-naming practices to delineate vernacular regions: A Michigan example
AU - Dunklee, Linda
AU - Krause, Austin
AU - Liesch, Matthew
AU - Feig, Anthony D
PY - 2014/12
Y1 - 2014/12
N2 - his article provides a history of efforts to map vernacular regions as context for offering readers a way of using business directories in order to construct a GIS-based map of vernacular regions. With Michigan as a case study, the article discusses regional-naming conventions, boundaries, and inclusions and omissions of areas from regional labels in order to offer educators ideas that can enhance classroom content on regions. This article concludes by providing suggestions for classroom activities collecting, analyzing, and discussing vernacular region patterns and processes in accordance with National Geography Standard Five at the eighth-grade level.
AB - his article provides a history of efforts to map vernacular regions as context for offering readers a way of using business directories in order to construct a GIS-based map of vernacular regions. With Michigan as a case study, the article discusses regional-naming conventions, boundaries, and inclusions and omissions of areas from regional labels in order to offer educators ideas that can enhance classroom content on regions. This article concludes by providing suggestions for classroom activities collecting, analyzing, and discussing vernacular region patterns and processes in accordance with National Geography Standard Five at the eighth-grade level.
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00221341.2014.965187
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-1341
VL - 114
SP - 188
EP - 196
JO - Journal of Geography
JF - Journal of Geography
IS - 5
ER -