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Exploring race and highway construction in the US
Using Social Explorer, ArcGIS, and Google Earth
Barbara Parmenter
Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
Exploring race and highway construction in the US
“If you could map the urban African American population in 1950, you could predict where highways and highway interchanges would be built.”
Social Explorer (Tufts license)
http://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=SocialExp
Allows us to map historical census data
http://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=SocialExp
Example: Boston’s Black Population 1940-2010
From Social Explorer
ArcGIS for joining tabular and geographic data, mapping, and exporting to Google Earth
ArcGIS for joining tabular and geographic data, mapping, and exporting to Google Earth
Google Earth for Visualizing
Google Earth for Visualizing
Student Project – Making general comparisons between cities
Emilie Falguieres, Fletcher School, Spring 2013
Portland, Oregon Example
Quick national overview analysis
Guides us to more in-depth exploration of specific cities
Houston, Texas – 1953 imagery
