The California Geographer Vol. 58 (2019)
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/215421
Journal of California Geographical Society2024-03-29T08:02:54ZNetwork Analysis of Local Food in California: A Study of Farmers' Markets in Los Angeles and Their Farm Supply Chains
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/211186
Network Analysis of Local Food in California: A Study of Farmers' Markets in Los Angeles and Their Farm Supply Chains
Drake, Luke P.
Derrick, Matthew; Sherriff, Rosemary
This paper examines the geography of local food through a spatial analysis of farms and farmers' markets. It draws on two themes in the geographical literature on local food, which focus on territorial and proximity definitions on one hand and on relationality on the other. Through GIS analysis, this paper explores spatial patterns of ninety-one farmers' markets in Los Angeles County, California, USA; spatial patterns of 282 farms that supplied a sample of thirty-three markets; and intra-urban patterns of those supply chains. The results show an uneven geography of farms across California that supplied the sampled markets, but also show that farms travel just as far to markets in working-class neighborhoods as to wealthier neighborhoods. Conclusions explain how integrating territorial and relational conceptions of local food provide insights into the complex spatiality of production and consumption, and how local food can be understood as an interdependence between places.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZFrom Marketplace to Promenade: Gentrification and Place Ownership in Santa Ana
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/211187
From Marketplace to Promenade: Gentrification and Place Ownership in Santa Ana
Koyanagi, Ryan Tuong An
Derrick, Matthew; Sherriff, Rosemary
The impact of gentrification on neighborhoods cannot be conceived of purely in terms of physical displacement. The physical displacement and exclusion of the incumbent population is accompanied and preceded by the psychic displacement and exclusion of the incumbent population. This is accomplished through a combined effort of municipal government and propertied interests rebranding space and effecting a transition in place ownership from the incumbent population to a quasi-imaginary privileged class. As this privileged class is not tied to race or ethnicity, younger and more-affluent members of the incumbent community's racial or ethnic group are just as likely to be party to the gentrification process. This article examines the correlation between the use of the Spanish-language and Latin American aesthetics in businesses in downtown Santa Ana, California, and how these businesses resist, contribute to, or adapt to the neighborhood's changing place identity.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Contours of Creativity: Public Art, Cultural Landscapes, and Urban Space in Venice, California
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/211188
The Contours of Creativity: Public Art, Cultural Landscapes, and Urban Space in Venice, California
Salim, Zia
Derrick, Matthew; Sherriff, Rosemary
This cross-sectional study examines spatial and thematic patterns of public art in Venice, Los Angeles's bohemian beach community, to determine how public wall art marks the cultural landscape. To do this, 353 items of public art were field surveyed, photographed, and mapped, with the resulting inventory being subjected to content analysis. Data from secondary sources, including the city's history and demographics, were used to contextualize the results. The results indicate that most public art is located on commercial buildings, with a smaller concentration on residential buildings. A majority of public art in Venice includes three main types of elements: local elements, people, and nature. Although public art is an especially dynamic and ephemeral subject of study, I conclude that an analysis of the locations and themes of public art helps to explain its aesthetic and historic functions and demonstrates its role in Venice's cultural landscape.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe California-Baja California Collecting Sites of Edgar A. Mearns During the Second International Boundary Survey
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/211189
The California-Baja California Collecting Sites of Edgar A. Mearns During the Second International Boundary Survey
Wills, Frederick H.
Derrick, Matthew; Sherriff, Rosemary
The United States and Mexico first surveyed the international boundary between 1849 and 1855. During 1892 -- 1894, a second boundary survey was conducted to permanently mark the boundary line. A series of 258 monuments were erected to formalize the line. As part of this later boundary survey, Dr. Edgar A. Mearns organized a biological survey of the area along and near the boundary from El Paso to San Diego. The specimens collected by his survey at almost one hundred collecting sites were explicitly tied to the locations of the nearest monuments. While the biological survey was tightly referenced to the permanent boundary monuments, the actual locations of the collecting sites were only presented as a distance north or south of a given monument. Therefore, the locations did not specify a point that can be plotted accurately. This study determined coordinates for the twenty-nine collecting sites in California and Baja California Norte. The methodologies used in this paper remove most of the ambiguity associated with the locations of Mearns' sites. Biogeographers can now be more confident of the positions of these collecting sites. Future historical ecology and other biological studies involving the U.S.-Mexico boundary area will be dependent on the biological baseline provided by Mearns' survey.
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