Vacated

Vacated examines whether temporal differences in Google Street View"s cache can be
used as a device to narrate rapidly changing urban landscapes. It was created to raise
awareness about the prevalence of historical data (often collected by large,
multinational corporations) hiding in plain sight. The project reverse engineers Google
Street View to highlight the changing landscape of various neighborhoods throughout
Manhattan and Brooklyn, in New York City. The project focuses on neighborhoods in
which housing costs rose dramatically during the Bloomberg Administration, finds
buildings constructed in the past four years using the NYC Department of City Planning"s
PLUTO dataset, and leverages Google Street View"s cache to visualize absent lots just
before new buildings were constructed.

More information at http://projects.justinblinder.com/Vacated

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