How Can You Measure Income Inequality? Count The Trees  (New)

Date: June 13, 2012
Source: Hatty Lee, Art and Production Manager, ARC and ColorLines Magazine, Oakland, CA
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In a recent project, environmental journalist Tim De Chant finds a surprising direct correlation between the number of trees a neighborhood has and its monetary wealth. The project, entitled "Income Inequality, As Seen From Space," looks at two neighborhoods from selected cities by comparing satellite images from Google Earth. Public response towards the project has been so positive many have begun applying it to their own cities and neighborhoods. Turns out there’s a direct correlation between the number of trees a neighborhood has and its monetary wealth — and we can see how this dynamic plays out in space. Environmental journalist Tim De Chant mapped it all out for us on his blog, Per Square Mile, where he worked up a small project called “Income Inequality, As Seen From Space.”

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