GEO 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Soho, Lindsay Lohan, Census Tract
20 Dec 2017
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If you can"t build out (width), go up (height: footprints. Megaplex: urban sites: smaller and taller, higher density downtown, suburban sites: wider and shorter, distribution of the murders. Figure 1: the university of chicago crime lab: the darker the shade, the higher the value (typically, significant concentration in certain neighbourhoods increase homicide rates. Geography is everything; ask them where they are to figure out why they"re sick or where the. Idea/problem: data (spatial, map, pattern: clustered, distance decay disease is coming from. Intervening opportunities (gravity model: they were going to a different pump (near the intersection of regent street and oxford. Potential customers were facing limited options since they"re within the vicinity. Ex. commuting to school; you"re buying starbucks or. Timmy"s while you"re downtown instead of bringing it with you on your commute. Some people had private wells while others drank beer instead of water so they weren"t getting sick.
