Mapping Canada's Divided Cities

The Martin Prosperity Institute has published a report into the urban geography of Canada, called The Divided City. The report argues that Canadian cities are immediately divided betwixt 3 principal social classes; the creative class, the service course of teaching as well as the working class.

To illustrate the results of the report The Martin Prosperity Institute has released an interactive map visulaizing where the 3 principal classes alive inwards Toronto, Vancouver as well as Montreal. The Geography of Class inwards Canadian Cities uses the Esri mapping platform to exhibit a map of each of the 3 cities.

On each of the urban essence maps neighborhoods are colored to betoken the predominant class. You tin likewise click on each neighborhood on the map to thought the pct of each course of teaching inwards the area. In all 3 cities the centers are dominated past times the affluent creative class, who likewise tend to radiate out along transit lines. The poorer working course of teaching has been pushed out inwards all 3 cities, amongst hardly whatever predominantly working course of teaching neighborhoods left inwards Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.

The Uk Austerity Map

The electrical flow Great Britain authorities has pursued 5 years of austerity measures every 2nd it tries to larn the country's deficit nether control. One of these measures has been to drastically cutting welfare payments.

The Financial Times has used information compiled past times the Centre for Regional Economic too Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University, measurement the impact of authorities welfare cuts on private local authorities, too created an Austerity Audit Map of England, Scotland & Wales.

The map provides a choropleth persuasion of the impact of the welfare cuts on each local authority. If you lot select an expanse on the map you lot tin persuasion the annual impact on each working adult inwards the region. This is shown past times the average pose out of pounds taken out of the local economic scheme per working adult.


While looking at the FT's Austerity Map it occurred to me that the to the lowest degree affected areas looked suspiciously similar a map of the ruling Conservative party's electrical flow constituencies.  Bet2015 has a prissy map showing the electrical flow seats of the political parties inwards the UK, too therefore it is slowly to brand a comparing betwixt the ii maps.

Is seems obvious when looking at the ii maps placed side-by-side that the introduce authorities inwards the Great Britain has implemented austerity measures that stimulate got (perhaps coincidentally) had far less economical impact on supporters of their ain voters.