Our field Seminar Class in front of the Manhattan skyline. Photo by Ezra Zeitler

Field Trip Introduction

In the spring of 2012, ten students and two professors left Eau Claire, Wisconsin and embarked on an urban geography field seminar to New York City. The themes of this educational endeavor included place-based identity, history and memory, agglomerative economic activities, gentrification, design and use of public space, politics, food systems and transportation logistics. During our week in the Big Apple from March 17th-24th, we journeyed to all five boroughs, indulged in an array of ethnic cuisines, navigated the subways like a boss and experienced the ethnic and cultural diversity of the largest city in the United States. This website accounts our eight day field seminar in New York City.  

Class picture in Times Square. Photo by Ezra Zeitler

Below is an interactive Flickr image map illustrating the many places visited during our field seminar in New York City.  Clicking on the picture will provide further information about meaning or significance of what was taken.

Cover Photo by Hillary Johnson