Conveners
Poster Session: Poster Presentation
- Susan Lucas (University of Pittsburgh)
Protests erupted in Rochester, NY in September, 2020, following the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after being restrained by Rochester police. Video footage of the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests went viral, making national and international news. This presentation maps the video footage created by one Rochester based journalist that went viral for all the wrong reasons: it...
For the majority, our experience of landscape is driven by the visual. While we often use visibility models built into geospatial software to capture viewsheds, these only represent portions of the landscape that can be seen and do not take into account other environmental and physiological aspects that limit what we can perceive. In 1975, landscape architect Tadahiko Higuchi offered a set of...
This poster will focus on the development of an immersive virtual landscape platform for the exploration of local stories and knowledge documented as part of the Gullah Geechee Digital Project. This project, led by the Athenaeum Press at Coastal Carolina University, brings together South Carolina Gullah Geechee archival collections held by a number of national and regional partners for the...
What impact does the history of redlining have on forest composition in neighborhoods of cities in upstate New York State? The practice of redlining, or discriminatory lending practices, as evidenced by the 1930’s era Homeowners Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) maps is well known to have affected neighborhood property values. The web GIS tools from the Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal...
