Don Lafreniere
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don Lafreniere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don |
| FAMILY NAME | Lafreniere |
| SIGNATURE | LAFRENIÈRE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9347-3955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A New Model for Public Participatory Engagement in Social Sciences and Spatial Humanities Digital Mapping Projects
Scholars in the social sciences and spatial humanities have developed a robust body of scholarship touting the benefits for the public and researchers alike in engaging with mapping projects, especially using public participatory geographical information systems (PPGIS) approaches. Developing robust and sustainable engagement from community stakeholders has been a continual challenge, however. Scholars have promoted many different public outreach…
Travail et migrations des francophones de la péninsule industrielle de Keweenaw, au Michigan
En s'appuyant sur des travaux antérieurs concernant les migrations canadiennes-françaises au Michigan lors de la période industrielle, la présente étude analyse l'évolution de la main-d'oeuvre francophone au fil du temps dans l'une des premières et des plus vastes régions minières des États-Unis. Elle examine un échantillon de francophones des comtés de Houghton et de Keweenaw, au Michigan, catégorisés à partir des recensements américains de 1870…
Built and social indices for hazards in Children's environments
Deep mapping the daily spaces of children and youth in the industrial city
Employing a deep mapping approach we aim to increase our understanding of the social, spatial, and temporal relationships children shared with the industrial city as it grew and evolved. In this paper, we spatialize and record-link numerous local and national datasets on environments and children including the complete count IPUMS historical census data to study the lives of schoolchildren in a twentieth century copper mining town in northern Mic…
Lessons from U.S. rust belt cities for equitable low-growth futures
The dynamics shaping 21st century urbanization are particularly visible throughout the American Rust Belt. With the pressures of economic and population growth receding, the local structures and contests shaping land use, development, and revitalization are more visible. In the context of racial segregation and political fragmentation, public entities, community groups and civic networks have generated innovations and interventions aligned with a…
Mapping Historical Archaeology and Industrial Heritage: The Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure
While a vibrant and growing research literature exists on the value of GIS to archaeology in general, the application of geospatial digital data to the subfield of historical archaeology is less well developed, especially in North America. This is particularly true for the era of industrialization, where the archaeological record is accompanied by a comparatively rich historical record. Historical and industrial archaeology are fundamentally boun…
Schools as Vectors of Infectious Disease Transmission during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Les auteurs utilisent une combinaison de microdonnées nationales tirées des séries IPUMS ( Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) et de microdonnées sur la population et la santé au niveau régional, spatialisées à l’échelon des ménages, et ils se servent d’un SIG historique (SIGH) pour suivre la transmission de l’infection grippale entre les enfants des écoles publiques de la péninsule nord du Michigan durant la pandémie de 1918. Les microdonnée…
Historical Spatial-Data Infrastructures for Archaeology: Towards a Spatiotemporal Big-Data Approach to Studying the Postindustrial City
Understanding Cumulative Hazards in a Rustbelt City: Integrating GIS, Archaeology, and Spatial History
We combine the Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure (HSDI) concept developed within spatial history with elements of archaeological predictive modeling to demonstrate a novel GIS-based landscape model for identifying the persistence of historically-generated industrial hazards in postindustrial cities. This historical big data approach draws on over a century of both historical and modern spatial big data to project the presence of specific per…
Public participatory historical GIS
Building historical geographic information system (HGIS) datasets is time consuming and very expensive, especially when built at the scales that permit analysis of the lived experiences of individuals or the morphology of buildings or streets. Further, these datasets are often built exclusively in the academy, with little input from the contemporary communities they represent. In this paper, we review the use of the public in crowdsourcing histor…
Working with the public in historical data creation
Historians engage with the nonacademic public in diverse ways, from blogging their research, to public-friendly periodicals, to the art and practice of public historians. Within this special issue we present another way to engage with the broader public, through the shared creation of historical data. The four papers in this special issue arise from a session on historical crowdsourcing at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Ass…
Heritage making through community archaeology and the spatial humanities
The archaeology of postindustrial landscapes is still relatively undeveloped. The impact of economic, social, and urban development efforts on both tangible and intangible heritage complicate our attempts to understand these places. Despite this, integrating heritage practice and promotion into the regeneration of a postindustrial landscape continues to grow in popularity. Within this context, genuine public-expert collaboration is the most effec…
Creating a longitudinal, data-driven 3D model of change over time in a postindustrial landscape using GIS and CityEngine
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to create a longitudinal data-driven model of change over time in a postindustrial landscape, using the “Copper Country” of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula as a case study. The models resulting from this project will support the heritage management and public education goals of the contemporary communities and Keweenaw National Historical Park that administer this nationally significant mining region through access…
A spatial evaluation of historic iron mining impacts on current impaired waters in Lake Superior’s Mesabi Range
Engaging Community and Spatial Humanities for Postindustrial Heritage: The Keweenaw Time Traveler
Engaging Community and Spatial Humanities for Postindustrial Heritage:The Keweenaw Time Traveler Sarah Fayen Scarlett (bio), Don Lafreniere (bio), Daniel J. Trepal (bio), John D. M. Arnold (bio), and Robert Pastel (bio) The Keweenaw Time Traveler www.keweenawhistory.com The Keweenaw Time Traveler is an interactive, online historical atlas that creates a comprehensive spatial representation of the social and built environments of one of the countr…
Racist housing practices as a precursor to uneven neighborhood change in a post-industrial city
Racial dynamics and discrimination have been extremely important in influencing decline in the American Rust Belt. The mid-twentieth century departure of white and middle-class populations from cities was precipitated by a breakdown of discriminatory housing practices. This study examines the relationship among housing condition, vacancies, poverty, and demographics in Flint, Michigan, from 1950 to 2010. Historical census data from the National H…
A geospatial approach to uncovering the hidden waste footprint of Lake Superior’s Mesabi Iron Range
Rebuilding the Landscape of the Rural Post Office: A Geo-Spatial Analysis of 19th-century Postal Spaces and Networks
This paper uses Post Office (PO) petitions to uncover the complex spatial relationships that developed through the unique social space of the PO. These petitions were signed by the rural people of Middlesex County, Ontario, and submitted to the Postmaster General in order to request changes in the workings of their postal services. When used in a historical GIS they allow us to recreate and reconstitute postal communities in late-19th-century rur…
Peopling the North American City: Montreal 1840–1900
Racist housing practices as a precursor to uneven neighborhood change in a post-industrial city
Racial dynamics and discrimination have been extremely important in influencing decline in the American Rust Belt. The mid-twentieth century departure of white and middle-class populations from cities was precipitated by a breakdown of discriminatory housing practices. This study examines the relationship among housing condition, vacancies, poverty, and demographics in Flint, Michigan, from 1950 to 2010. Historical census data from the National H…
Historical Spatial-Data Infrastructures for Archaeology: Towards a Spatiotemporal Big-Data Approach to Studying the Postindustrial City
Engaging Community and Spatial Humanities for Postindustrial Heritage: The Keweenaw Time Traveler
Engaging Community and Spatial Humanities for Postindustrial Heritage:The Keweenaw Time Traveler Sarah Fayen Scarlett (bio), Don Lafreniere (bio), Daniel J. Trepal (bio), John D. M. Arnold (bio), and Robert Pastel (bio) The Keweenaw Time Traveler www.keweenawhistory.com The Keweenaw Time Traveler is an interactive, online historical atlas that creates a comprehensive spatial representation of the social and built environments of one of the countr…
Heritage making through community archaeology and the spatial humanities
The archaeology of postindustrial landscapes is still relatively undeveloped. The impact of economic, social, and urban development efforts on both tangible and intangible heritage complicate our attempts to understand these places. Despite this, integrating heritage practice and promotion into the regeneration of a postindustrial landscape continues to grow in popularity. Within this context, genuine public-expert collaboration is the most effec…
Public participatory historical GIS
Building historical geographic information system (HGIS) datasets is time consuming and very expensive, especially when built at the scales that permit analysis of the lived experiences of individuals or the morphology of buildings or streets. Further, these datasets are often built exclusively in the academy, with little input from the contemporary communities they represent. In this paper, we review the use of the public in crowdsourcing histor…
A geospatial approach to uncovering the hidden waste footprint of Lake Superior’s Mesabi Iron Range
A spatial evaluation of historic iron mining impacts on current impaired waters in Lake Superior’s Mesabi Range
Rebuilding the Landscape of the Rural Post Office: A Geo-Spatial Analysis of 19th-century Postal Spaces and Networks
This paper uses Post Office (PO) petitions to uncover the complex spatial relationships that developed through the unique social space of the PO. These petitions were signed by the rural people of Middlesex County, Ontario, and submitted to the Postmaster General in order to request changes in the workings of their postal services. When used in a historical GIS they allow us to recreate and reconstitute postal communities in late-19th-century rur…
Deep mapping the daily spaces of children and youth in the industrial city
Employing a deep mapping approach we aim to increase our understanding of the social, spatial, and temporal relationships children shared with the industrial city as it grew and evolved. In this paper, we spatialize and record-link numerous local and national datasets on environments and children including the complete count IPUMS historical census data to study the lives of schoolchildren in a twentieth century copper mining town in northern Mic…
Understanding Cumulative Hazards in a Rustbelt City: Integrating GIS, Archaeology, and Spatial History
We combine the Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure (HSDI) concept developed within spatial history with elements of archaeological predictive modeling to demonstrate a novel GIS-based landscape model for identifying the persistence of historically-generated industrial hazards in postindustrial cities. This historical big data approach draws on over a century of both historical and modern spatial big data to project the presence of specific per…
A New Model for Public Participatory Engagement in Social Sciences and Spatial Humanities Digital Mapping Projects
Scholars in the social sciences and spatial humanities have developed a robust body of scholarship touting the benefits for the public and researchers alike in engaging with mapping projects, especially using public participatory geographical information systems (PPGIS) approaches. Developing robust and sustainable engagement from community stakeholders has been a continual challenge, however. Scholars have promoted many different public outreach…
Peopling the North American City: Montreal 1840–1900
A geospatial approach to uncovering the hidden waste footprint of Lake Superior’s Mesabi Iron Range
Rebuilding the Landscape of the Rural Post Office: A Geo-Spatial Analysis of 19th-century Postal Spaces and Networks
This paper uses Post Office (PO) petitions to uncover the complex spatial relationships that developed through the unique social space of the PO. These petitions were signed by the rural people of Middlesex County, Ontario, and submitted to the Postmaster General in order to request changes in the workings of their postal services. When used in a historical GIS they allow us to recreate and reconstitute postal communities in late-19th-century rur…
Racist housing practices as a precursor to uneven neighborhood change in a post-industrial city
Racial dynamics and discrimination have been extremely important in influencing decline in the American Rust Belt. The mid-twentieth century departure of white and middle-class populations from cities was precipitated by a breakdown of discriminatory housing practices. This study examines the relationship among housing condition, vacancies, poverty, and demographics in Flint, Michigan, from 1950 to 2010. Historical census data from the National H…
Creating a longitudinal, data-driven 3D model of change over time in a postindustrial landscape using GIS and CityEngine
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to create a longitudinal data-driven model of change over time in a postindustrial landscape, using the “Copper Country” of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula as a case study. The models resulting from this project will support the heritage management and public education goals of the contemporary communities and Keweenaw National Historical Park that administer this nationally significant mining region through access…
A spatial evaluation of historic iron mining impacts on current impaired waters in Lake Superior’s Mesabi Range
Engaging Community and Spatial Humanities for Postindustrial Heritage: The Keweenaw Time Traveler
Engaging Community and Spatial Humanities for Postindustrial Heritage:The Keweenaw Time Traveler Sarah Fayen Scarlett (bio), Don Lafreniere (bio), Daniel J. Trepal (bio), John D. M. Arnold (bio), and Robert Pastel (bio) The Keweenaw Time Traveler www.keweenawhistory.com The Keweenaw Time Traveler is an interactive, online historical atlas that creates a comprehensive spatial representation of the social and built environments of one of the countr…
Understanding Cumulative Hazards in a Rustbelt City: Integrating GIS, Archaeology, and Spatial History
We combine the Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure (HSDI) concept developed within spatial history with elements of archaeological predictive modeling to demonstrate a novel GIS-based landscape model for identifying the persistence of historically-generated industrial hazards in postindustrial cities. This historical big data approach draws on over a century of both historical and modern spatial big data to project the presence of specific per…
Public participatory historical GIS
Building historical geographic information system (HGIS) datasets is time consuming and very expensive, especially when built at the scales that permit analysis of the lived experiences of individuals or the morphology of buildings or streets. Further, these datasets are often built exclusively in the academy, with little input from the contemporary communities they represent. In this paper, we review the use of the public in crowdsourcing histor…
Working with the public in historical data creation
Historians engage with the nonacademic public in diverse ways, from blogging their research, to public-friendly periodicals, to the art and practice of public historians. Within this special issue we present another way to engage with the broader public, through the shared creation of historical data. The four papers in this special issue arise from a session on historical crowdsourcing at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Ass…
Heritage making through community archaeology and the spatial humanities
The archaeology of postindustrial landscapes is still relatively undeveloped. The impact of economic, social, and urban development efforts on both tangible and intangible heritage complicate our attempts to understand these places. Despite this, integrating heritage practice and promotion into the regeneration of a postindustrial landscape continues to grow in popularity. Within this context, genuine public-expert collaboration is the most effec…
Historical Spatial-Data Infrastructures for Archaeology: Towards a Spatiotemporal Big-Data Approach to Studying the Postindustrial City
Lessons from U.S. rust belt cities for equitable low-growth futures
The dynamics shaping 21st century urbanization are particularly visible throughout the American Rust Belt. With the pressures of economic and population growth receding, the local structures and contests shaping land use, development, and revitalization are more visible. In the context of racial segregation and political fragmentation, public entities, community groups and civic networks have generated innovations and interventions aligned with a…
Mapping Historical Archaeology and Industrial Heritage: The Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure
While a vibrant and growing research literature exists on the value of GIS to archaeology in general, the application of geospatial digital data to the subfield of historical archaeology is less well developed, especially in North America. This is particularly true for the era of industrialization, where the archaeological record is accompanied by a comparatively rich historical record. Historical and industrial archaeology are fundamentally boun…
Schools as Vectors of Infectious Disease Transmission during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Les auteurs utilisent une combinaison de microdonnées nationales tirées des séries IPUMS ( Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) et de microdonnées sur la population et la santé au niveau régional, spatialisées à l’échelon des ménages, et ils se servent d’un SIG historique (SIGH) pour suivre la transmission de l’infection grippale entre les enfants des écoles publiques de la péninsule nord du Michigan durant la pandémie de 1918. Les microdonnée…
Deep mapping the daily spaces of children and youth in the industrial city
Employing a deep mapping approach we aim to increase our understanding of the social, spatial, and temporal relationships children shared with the industrial city as it grew and evolved. In this paper, we spatialize and record-link numerous local and national datasets on environments and children including the complete count IPUMS historical census data to study the lives of schoolchildren in a twentieth century copper mining town in northern Mic…
Built and social indices for hazards in Children's environments
Travail et migrations des francophones de la péninsule industrielle de Keweenaw, au Michigan
En s'appuyant sur des travaux antérieurs concernant les migrations canadiennes-françaises au Michigan lors de la période industrielle, la présente étude analyse l'évolution de la main-d'oeuvre francophone au fil du temps dans l'une des premières et des plus vastes régions minières des États-Unis. Elle examine un échantillon de francophones des comtés de Houghton et de Keweenaw, au Michigan, catégorisés à partir des recensements américains de 1870…
A New Model for Public Participatory Engagement in Social Sciences and Spatial Humanities Digital Mapping Projects
Scholars in the social sciences and spatial humanities have developed a robust body of scholarship touting the benefits for the public and researchers alike in engaging with mapping projects, especially using public participatory geographical information systems (PPGIS) approaches. Developing robust and sustainable engagement from community stakeholders has been a continual challenge, however. Scholars have promoted many different public outreach…
Geography (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Cartography (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Data science (6 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (5 works) · Post-industrial society (5 works)