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​​The first map provides a tour through the history of Easton as understood by the growth in transportation routes across the town--from canals to roads to railroad tracks and bridges.

 

 

The second map provides a vision of parking, green space, and mobility through Easton. It suggests that the ways we orient ourselves to the town are guided predominantly by vehicles.

 

The third map leads to an off-site link where viewers can understand downtown Easton as a landscape of sounds and silences. It is a study of acoustic ecology that asks visitors to know Easton as a place of hearing, not sight.

 

The fourth map examines the relationships between energy and food by comparing the relative availability of a vegetarian or carnivorous diet. Since meat requires more energy to produce, process, ship, and prepare than vegetarian meals, the map shows which menus require the most energy to source.

 

The fifth tab maps the Ethnic restaurants in Easton. It indicates the breakdown of the population ethnicity based on 2010 census data and details the location of restaurants and the image they choose to project. At stake in this way of orienting oneself in Easton is a clash between authenticity (with presumed ethnic food) and the artificial (since that ethnic food is an American, Eastonian version of the foreign).

This is the course project page for "Technology and Nature" at Lafayette College, taught by Prof. Benjamin Cohen in Spring 2013.​ The class is cross-listed in Engineering Studies and Environmental Studies as EGRS/EVST 373. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The maps on each of the tabs along the bottom of this page provide a different way to orient yourself in the historic downtown district of Easton, PA.
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