In this interactive web site, you are able to select a city or metropolitan area and view the location of high-poverty census tracts and observe the growth of high-poverty areas over time. In addition, you may view the changing demographics of the population. All of the maps here are based on U.S. Census data from 1970 through 2000. The data are summarized at the neighborhood level, using Census Tracts as proxies for neighborhoods.

Discusses the way that Jersey City, Boston, and another city are imagined by long time residents. A pivotal work in showing how people imagine cities and in what kinds of markers make sense to people as they think about cities.