Week 5: Part 1

This week i worked in preparation for critique of my ideas, focusing on gentrification as a major issue and sub issues which arise from gentrification such as poverty, crime, unemployment etc.

Map 1: Gentrification 

Comic sketch of Gentrification

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1703122!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/spike-lee.jpg

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Images of Brooklyn before and after Gentrification
http://gizmodo.com/tracking-brooklyns-rapid-fire-gentrification-with-googl-1594799132

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Gentrification definition: the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents.  

Utilizing GIS overlay, i identified the areas at the highest risk of future gentrification by overlaying the following maps. Figureground Map, Poverty Percentage Map, Suburbs Map, Land Prices Map, Household Income Map, Crime Rates Map, Demographics Map and Education Level Map.  This process was done by converting the most undesirable characteristics of each map to white whilst working to the most desirable which would be grey.

Used Maps

GIS overlay map showing in red the highest potential gentrification levels

To better explain these maps when it comes to presentation time, there will be a number of representative icons which show the process involved as to how these sites were selected.  This graphical method of explanation will follow through for the ensuing map analysis.

The questions now lie.  How will a chosen site or sites bridge the connection between the 2 segregated red areas? How will the site or sites promote the community change of the stakeholders needs and wants? and how will the site or sites effect their immediate contexts and future growth?