The Spring 2024 Seminar in Geography class worked with the Trumbull County Historical Society to map 300+ businesses that were lost to urban renewal in …
Urban renewal in Warren, Ohio
Maps
Safe Routes to School
We worked with the City of Kent and Kent City Schools to conduct walk audits, create maps for workshop with stakeholders, and analyze survey results. …
Bioblitz observations
Community Geography includes campus research and education activities. In April 2023, we worked with folks from across campus to host the Bioblitz. Here’s what we …
Around the Block: A walk-a-day COVID map
During the early months of COVID, when daycare was closed, we walked our kid around the block twice a day. This is what we saw. …
Downtown Kent wayfinding map
Every year or two for the past ten years, I’ve updated the downtown Kent wayfinding map that appears in five kiosks downtown. Here’s one from …
Vaccination availability in Akron
Published in May 2021, this map illustrates the relationship between pharmacies offering the COVID vaccine, population density, and race in Akron and its suburbs. It …
Downtown Kent walking tours
As a MapIt! graduate assistant, Josie Myers created several StoryMap walking tours for Main Street Kent, including the History of Industry and Public Art walking …
Mapping May 4
This project maps stories from the Kent State Shootings Oral Histories Project onto a map of Kent in 1970. The MappingMay4.kent.edu web app provides an …
Campus trees
This map uses USDA i-Tree software to show the location, diameter and value of trees on the Kent State campus.Tree data available here.