Gallery: Mapping Silicon Valley's Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes
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*Where’s the densest place in the Bay Area, the place where the largest numbers of people can use the smallest numbers of buses? By this logic it’s not the hipsters that have chosen to gentrify San Francisco, but the Facebooks and the Googles who are incidentally causing this kind of development through the simple calculus of where they can house the most workers. That those workers are young and educated and lots of them are millionaires is kind of beside the point. Only a map is going to lead you to this kind of thinking. Images: courtesy Stamen Design*
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*Instead of thinking about this new 'infrastructure' as just a bunch of buses that were raising the rents nearby (although they certainly were doing that too), we tried to approach our project of mapping the shuttles as a* system*, whiteboarded here.*
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*I think it's important that real people had to physically stand on the street and gather data by hand in order to understand the contours of an urban condition with an obvious digital shadow.*
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*Cabspotting, a project of the San Francisco Exploratorium's Invisible Dynamics initiative (including Stamen Design among others), traces San Francisco's taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay Area. These patterns create a living map of city life -- and reflect how the city is* always *changing.*
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