julie bogdanowicz: facemap toronto (open data day 2013 – toronto)

7/28/2019 Julie Bogdanowicz: Facemap Toronto (Open Data Day 2013 Toronto)

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F A C E M A PTHIS IS WHAT TORONTOS

SOCIAL REALITY LOOKS LIKE


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Data is an abstraction.

Photography is not.


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Photography is not.

Census statistics are interpreted,

portrayed and understood as facts.


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Photography is not.

Census statistics are interpreted,

portrayed and understood as facts.

Quantifcation produces acompression of information and

can only tell part of the story.


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Facemap attempts to engage with

data in a more direct way, through

the immediacy of photography.

Facemap represents the trendsaround income inequality in Toronto.


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BACKGROUND


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BACKGROUND


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BACKGROUND


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BACKGROUND


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1970

City 1City 2

City 3


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Steeles Ave

Bloor St W

Danforth Ave

Yonge

St

Hwy 401

Hwy 401

1980

City 1City 2

City 3


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Steeles Ave

Bloor St W

Danforth Ave

Yonge

St

Hwy 401

Hwy 401

1990

City 1City 2

City 3


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City 1City 2

City 3

Steeles Ave

Bloor St W

Danforth Ave

Yonge

St

Hwy 401

Hwy 401

2000

Tsk, tsk.

Tocqueville


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2025

?

Census Tract

Transit (Regional & Municipal)

Municipal Boundary

Highway


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197

0

Census Tract


Municipal Boundary

Highway


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CITY 1

CITY 2

CITY 3

2% BLACK POPULATION

2% SOUTH ASIAN POPULATION

7% OTHER VISIBLE MINORITY POPULATION (FILIPINO, LATINO, KOREAN, ARAB, ETC)

7% CHINESE POPULATION

82% WHITE POPULATION


11% OTHER VISIBLE MINORITY POPULATION (FILIPINO, LATIN, KOREAN, ARAB, ETC)



6% BLACK POPULATION



19% OTHER VISIBLE MINORITY POPULATION (FILIPINO, LATINO, KOREAN, ARAB, ETC)


12% BLACK POPULATION

Income increased 20%

or more since 1970

Income increased or decreased

less than 20% since 1970

Income decreased 20%

or more since 1970

Economic inequality produces socio-spatial exclusion

= social spatial segregation & socio-spatial disadvantage


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Specifc Actions (Municipal)

Inclusionary Zoning

Rental Housing Rehabilitation

Vacancy Decontrol

Tower Neighbourhood Renewal

Rapid Transit In City 3

Specifc Action (Federal, Provincial)

Income Strategy

Anti-Discrimination Strategy

Housing Strategy

Labour Market Strategy

POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS


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2025

?

Census Tract


Municipal Boundary

Highway

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