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Assessing Riverfront Accessibility in the Quad Cities Area Lorraine Stamberger Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois Augustana College Augustana Digital Commons Geography: Student Scholarship & Creative Works Geography 2016 Reaching the Water's Edge: Assessing Riverfront Accessibility in the Quad Cities Area Lorraine Stamberger Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/geogstudent Part of the Geographic Information Sciences Commons, Human Geography Commons, Nature and Society Relations Commons, and the Spatial Science Commons Augustana Digital Commons Citation Stamberger, Lorraine. "Reaching the Water's Edge: Assessing Riverfront Accessibility in the Quad Cities Area" (2016). Geography: Student Scholarship & Creative Works. http://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/geogstudent/3 This Student Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Geography at Augustana Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Geography: Student Scholarship & Creative Works by an authorized administrator of Augustana Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. REACHING THE WATER’S EDGE: ASSESSING RIVERFRONT ACCESSIBILITY IN THE QUAD CITIES AREA by Lorraine Renee Stamberger A senior inquiry submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Geography AUGUSTANA COLLEGE Rock Island, Illinois February 2015 ©COPYRIGHT by Lorraine Renee Stamberger 2015 All Rights Reserved ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project was made possible by funding from the Upper Mississippi Center at Augustana College and an Augustana Student Research Grant. Specifically, thank you to Dr. William Hammer and Dr. Michael Reisner for granting me those funds for my summer research. I would like to individually thank Ray Weiser, Josh Boudi, and Lisa Miller from giving me access to city, county, and regional GIS layers. I am thankful for the help of Augustana staff members Carol Ehlert and Beth Roberts for their guidance in getting the surveys mailed out and also for the help of fellow summer interns for stuffing surveys. I would especially like to thank the following Augustana professors, Dr. Reuben Heine, Dr. Chris Strunk, and Dr. Matthew Fockler, for the hours they have spent assisting me in the year-long process of completing my Geography Senior Inquiry. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 1 2. STUDY AREA ........................................................................................................................ 4 3. LITERATURE REVIEW ........................................................................................................11 Accessibility: What is it? .........................................................................................................11 Accessibility: How is it measured? ..........................................................................................12 Place Attachment: Beyond your doorstep................................................................................15 4. METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................................................16 5. RESULTS ................................................................................................................................21 6. DISCUSSION .........................................................................................................................38 7. REFERENCES CITED ............................................................................................................41 8. APPENDICES .........................................................................................................................44 APPENDIX A: Cartographic Model for MRAI #1 ................................................................45 APPENDIX B: Cartographic Model for MRAI #2.................................................................47 APPENDIX C: Cartographic Model for MRAI #3Cartographic Model for MRAI #1 ..........49 APPENDIX D: Cartographic Model for MRAI #4 ................................................................51 APPENDIX E: Cartographic Model for MRAI #5 .................................................................53 APPENDIX F: Cartographic Model for MRAI #6 .................................................................55 APPENDIX G: Survey example .............................................................................................57 iv LIST OF TABLES Table Page 1. Mississippi River Accessibility Index (MRAI) ........................................................... 17 2. Ranking of Accessibility Indicators by City ................................................................ 21 3. Public Access Points to the Mississippi River ............................................................. 22 4. Population within Distance Buffers ............................................................................. 23 5. Amount of Public Recreational Paths with River and Non-river Views ..................... 25 6. Visibility of the River for City Populations ................................................................. 27 7. Land Use Type along the Riverfront ........................................................................... 28 8. Public Bus Route Lengths within Distance Buffers .................................................... 30 9. Perceived Use of the Mississippi River ....................................................................... 33 10. Perceived Image of the Mississippi River ................................................................. 34 11. Perceived Accessibility of the Mississippi River ...................................................... 34 v LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1. The Quad Cities, located in the Midwest Region ........................................................ 5 2. The Municipalities of the Quad Cities ......................................................................... 5 3. View of the Mississippi River from the recreation path along Schwiebert Park ......... 6 4. View of the Mississippi River from Ben Butterworth Parkway .................................. 7 5. View of the Mississippi River and Centennial Bridge from the recreation path in Davenport .................................................................................. 8 6. View of the Isle Capri casino from the recreation path atop the levee ........................ 9 7. Public Access Points in the Quad Cities ......................................................................22 8. Population Proportions within Distance Buffers .........................................................23 9. Quad Cities Population Distribution ............................................................................24 10. Population Distribution based on Distance Buffers from the Mississippi River .......24 11. River Visibility from Public Recreational Paths along the Mississippi River ...........26 12. River Visibility from Public Recreational Paths ........................................................26 13. Percentage of City Populations within the Mississippi River Viewshed ...................27 14. Areas within the Viewshed of the Mississippi River .................................................28 15. River Land Uses for each City ...................................................................................29 16. Public and Private Land along the Mississippi Riverfront ........................................30 17. Bus Route Distances (in miles) within Distance Buffers ...........................................31 18. Bus Routes within Distance Buffers ..........................................................................31 19. Public Bus Routes in the Quad Cities ........................................................................32 vi LIST OF FIGURES – CONTINUED Figure Page 20. Survey responses to Question 6: “Which riverfront to you visit most often?” (N=132) ................................................................................................35 21. Survey response to Question 7: “I am the Mississippi River in your neighborhood. I am __________.” (N=118) .....................................................36 22. Survey responses to Question 16: “In your city of residence, is it easier or more difficult to access the river compared to the other cities in the QCA?” (N=128) .....................................................................................37 23. Survey responses to Question 17: “Where would you take someone from out of town first?” (N=118) ..............................................................................37 vii ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to understand the level of access people in the Quad Cities community have to the Mississippi River. Specifically, this study explores how accessibility levels differ in the cities of Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island, and Moline. Also, it explores how the level of measured accessibility relates to the perceived image, use, and accessibility of the Mississippi River. Information about public accessibility comes from a newly created Mississippi River Accessibility Index (MRAI) and resident surveys. The MRAI combines six indicators to measure accessibility to the river. Applying the indicators to the four cities, Moline ranked number one in having the best accessibility to the Mississippi River while Bettendorf ranked last. The cities of Davenport and Rock Island ranked two and three, respectively.
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