gentrification

  • Even Scientists Are Using Google Street View To Measure Gentrification

    Even Scientists Are Using Google Street View To Measure Gentrification

    Alissa Walker

    Google Street View is an excellent way to watch your neighbourhood change. In fact, we’ve conducted our own informal surveys of urban transformation in Detroit, San Francisco and Brooklyn. While our investigations were based on casual observation, now a pair of sociologists from Harvard are using Google Street View data to measure gentrification — and…

  • Watch New York City Gentrify In These Jaw-Dropping GIFs

    Watch New York City Gentrify In These Jaw-Dropping GIFs

    jordan kushins

    Gentrification can’t stop, won’t stop. Artist and programmer Justin Blinder grabbed cached images from Google Street View featuring construction sites in Brooklyn and Manhattan over the past four years, then joined before-and-after pics together in a pretty eye-opening series he calls Vacated.