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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

1940

www.socialexplorer.com

www.socialexplorer.com

1950

1960

www.socialexplorer.com

1970

www.socialexplorer.com

1980

www.socialexplorer.com

1990

www.socialexplorer.com

2000

www.socialexplorer.com

2010

www.socialexplorer.com

National Historic GIS (open access)

http://nhgis.org

National Historic GIS (tabular and GIS boundary files)

http://nhgis.org

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

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