Prepare a written community history of your “home” town.
The use of “locator” maps is strongly encouraged
. Seek to address the following questions, as appropriate:
1)
What
natural geographic factors
influenced the choice of location or site for the original settlement? If your home town was an outgrowth of another, larger adjacent city or town (for example, if your home is a “suburb”), when was it founded? Officially incorporated or chartered? Does it possess any major centers of employment, to which others commute for work from other places?
2)
Can you discover which
ethnic or cultural groups
were predominant in the original settlement? If settled by immigrants from other places, where were they from? Clues may exist in last names in local telephone directories, in the names of streets or very old local churches/synagogues/mosques/temples or other religious or voluntary associations (some of which may have adjacent burial grounds). You may need to contact the local historical society, in the US often a county association.
3)
When the place was settled, in what
occupations
were most people engaged? What were the major factors influencing how these occupational categories changed or evolved over time?
4)
Identify and describe
the oldest building(s)
in your home town. If you cannot date the oldest building, can you identify the section of the city or town containing the oldest buildings? Using a “field guide” to architecture,
determine if the buildings fit an identifiable architectural form
of expression (whether “vernacular” or “high” style). If you live in a suburb where virtually ALL the buildings are new, you are still responsible for identifying style characteristics. The instructor may be able to provide supplemental resources for “typing” the style categories.
5)
What is the
most significant
public space
(place) in your home town? What are its spatial characteristics (shape, dimensions, etc.)? How is the space bounded or defined? In other words, when you’re there, how is it that you
know
you’re there?
NEED TO WRITE: 5 PAGES SINGLE SPACES WITH 11 FONT SIZE,
All these page counts do not include the Bibliography, which may be any number of pages, depending upon how much research you have done and how many sources you have consulted.
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Prepare a written community history of your home” town. The use o.docx
1. Prepare a written community history of your “home” town.
The use of “locator” maps is strongly encouraged
. Seek to address the following questions, as appropriate:
1)
What
natural geographic factors
influenced the choice of location or site for the original
settlement? If your home town was an outgrowth of another,
larger adjacent city or town (for example, if your home is a
“suburb”), when was it founded? Officially incorporated or
chartered? Does it possess any major centers of employment, to
which others commute for work from other places?
2)
Can you discover which
ethnic or cultural groups
were predominant in the original settlement? If settled by
immigrants from other places, where were they from? Clues
may exist in last names in local telephone directories, in the
names of streets or very old local
churches/synagogues/mosques/temples or other religious or
voluntary associations (some of which may have adjacent burial
grounds). You may need to contact the local historical society,
in the US often a county association.
3)
When the place was settled, in what
occupations
were most people engaged? What were the major factors
influencing how these occupational categories changed or
evolved over time?
4)
2. Identify and describe
the oldest building(s)
in your home town. If you cannot date the oldest building, can
you identify the section of the city or town containing the oldest
buildings? Using a “field guide” to architecture,
determine if the buildings fit an identifiable architectural form
of expression (whether “vernacular” or “high” style). If you
live in a suburb where virtually ALL the buildings are new, you
are still responsible for identifying style characteristics. The
instructor may be able to provide supplemental resources for
“typing” the style categories.
5)
What is the
most significant
public space
(place) in your home town? What are its spatial
characteristics (shape, dimensions, etc.)? How is the space
bounded or defined? In other words, when you’re there, how is
it that you
know
you’re there?
NEED TO WRITE: 5 PAGES SINGLE SPACES WITH 11 FONT
SIZE,
All these page counts do not include the Bibliography, which
may be any number of pages, depending upon how much
research you have done and how many sources you have
consulted.
