Repost of New York Remains a Tale of Two Cities for Public Space Equity by Gersh Kuntzman
See the city in a whole new light — an unflattering one.
Today, Transportation Alternatives and the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are unveiling Spacial Equity NYC, a new tool that allows users, at the touch of a few buttons, to peer deeply into New York’s failures and analyze them across class, racial, geographic and demographic lines.
The resulting portrait reveals alarming inequities in how public space — including streets, sidewalks, and green spaces — is distributed in this city.
One of the starkest finding is the one that street safety advocates have been decrying for years: Poorer neighborhoods have more traffic injuries than richer ones.
Read more at StreetsBlog
