You can identify poor neighborhoods from space

25 May

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Tim De Chant at Per Square Mile has noted that rich urban areas have way, way more trees than poor areas in the same city. In fact, the difference is so stark that income inequality can be seen from space. The satellite images above are low-income West Oakland and high-income Piedmont, and I probably don't have to tell you which is which.

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2 Responses to “You can identify poor neighborhoods from space”

  1. Lloyd's of Rochester May 27, 2012 at 20:55 #

    Hmmm…but consider German and other European cities and how closely they are inhabited. Non sequitur. In St. Louis the neighborhoods originally inhabited by German immigrants were well-cared for, but as they were replaced by others with different expectations and values, they became slums. It isn’t about space as much as it is about the individuals who inhabit the space. One culture’s expectations cannot be extrapolated to apply to a whole paradigm.

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