A Google Map mash-up shows how hospital closures in NYC disproportionately effect the poor and people of colour. ⇒
1 March 2007, lunch time
This is a pretty slick mash-up. This link was found via Social Design Notes.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
At first blush, I don’t like the existence of this map.
It highlights areas in which new potential residents may decide not to move into a neighbourhood with poor health care access. A kind of red-lining. Red-lining was/is the practice of banks et al arbitrarily deciding to no longer finance house purchases in given neighbourhoods, mostly immigrant and ethnic (ie blacks in the inner city of the u.s.). This feeds in on itself creating a downward spiral of urban decay. Thanks for the link today, I doubt I woulda found it otherwise.by HiMY SYeD on March 4 2007, 8:35 am #