Use of Business-Naming Practices to Delineate Vernacular Regions: A Michigan Example

Journal of Geography

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 188-196

  Liesch, Matthew ^a   Dunklee, Linda M ^a   Legg, Robert J ^b   Feig, Anthony D ^a   Krause, Austin Jena ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

pedagogy; popular region; regional characteristics; regional geography; representation of place

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION; GIS; REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938553980     PISSN: 00221341     EISSN: 17526868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2014.965187     Document Type: Article

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