1. Exploring race and highway construction in the US Using Social Explorer, ArcGIS, and Google Earth Barbara Parmenter Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

2. 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.”

3. Social Explorer (Tufts license) http://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=SocialExp

4. Allows us to map historical census data http://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=SocialExp

5. Example: Boston’s Black Population 1940-2010 From Social Explorer

6. 1940 www.socialexplorer.com

7. 1950

8. 1960 www.socialexplorer.com

9. 1970 www.socialexplorer.com

10. 1980 www.socialexplorer.com

11. 1990 www.socialexplorer.com

12. 2000 www.socialexplorer.com

13. 2010 www.socialexplorer.com

14. National Historic GIS (open access) http://nhgis.org

15. National Historic GIS (tabular and GIS boundary files) http://nhgis.org

16. ArcGIS for joining tabular and geographic data, mapping, and exporting to Google Earth

18. Google Earth for Visualizing

20. Student Project – Making general comparisons between cities Emilie Falguieres, Fletcher School, Spring 2013

23. Portland, Oregon Example

26. Quick national overview analysis Guides us to more in-depth exploration of specific cities Houston, Texas – 1953 imagery