Mapping Micro-Level Segregation Reveals a Neighborhood’s Real Diversity
“In a new map, MIT Media Lab visualizes that kind of micro-level segregation in the Boston metro region to show that ‘economic inequality isn’t just limited to neighborhoods,’ as the researchers write on the website. ‘It’s part of the places you visit every day.’ The map, which the MIT team hopes to expand to the 11 largest U.S. cities, is a part of ongoing research into how individual decisions and opportunities shape real-word urban issues so that ‘we can act and intervene in human behavior,’ said Esteban Moro, the principal investigator at MIT Media Lab and an associate professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.”