Data Dialogue
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 11:45am, Gross 330
John Killeen (Durham Neighborhood Compass)
History, Subversive Geographies and Neighborhood Data

Abstract:

In modern urban research raw data, whether it represents people or our built environment, is generally summarized to boundaries created by our programs (think Census Bureau, city planning, place-based initiatives). But they keep changing, making it very hard to describe things we care a lot about through history. Housing conditions, household income, access to jobs and services – data for these can seem less and less powerful because of the influence of changing boundaries over time. But they are also influenced by the presence of competing, often unacknowledged boundaries, both new and old. Methods exist for synthesizing Census geography from decade to decade. But how do we acknowledge the influence of these alternative geographies which have the power to influence home values and neighborhood stability, and can attract or discourage investment?

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