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Second Languages

A map full of striking patterns, from Savills’ analyst Neal Hudson. It shows the areas of London where, for each area, the second most popular language is spoken by more than 5% of residents there, based on the 2011 Census. It clearly reveals London’s linguistic clusters, from Arabic to Yiddish and Lithuanian to Tamil.

The full-size map is no longer on Neal’s website but you can download it here.

Note that this is not a map of people’s own second languages, but rather of the second most popular language spoken in each area. The areas used are Middle Super Output Areas which have a typical population of around 10000 people, so, as a guide at least 500 people within each area speak the language shown as their primary language. Middle Super Output Areas are a statistical grouping of areas. They are somewhat analogous to political wards, except that they change if their populations decrease below, or increase above, thresholds, whereas wards tend to remain constant.

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Neal Hudson on Twitter: London house price map

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▻https://twitter.com/resi_analyst/status/507874283582812161/photo/1

London house price map pic.twitter.com/v8ODegDKc0

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Mapping gentrification : The great inversion | The Economist

▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2013/09/mapping-gentrification?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fbl%2Fgreatinversion

Le discours of The Economist n’est pas trop ma tasse de thé, mais il faut quand même leu dire « chapeau » pour la section cartographie et visualisation.

LONDON is turning inside out. That, anyway, is roughly the argument of a couple of pieces we have published recently. Just as affluent young professionals seem to be staying in the inner-city longer, turning places such as Dalston (in Hackney) and Peckham (in Southwark) into hipster enclaves, so too are the outer suburbs getting poorer, as people who cannot afford inner-London rents are pushed further out.

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Anyway, I come back to the topic because since publishing those pieces, Neal Hudson, an analyst at Savills, a big estate agent, sent me the quite fascinating map above. He has calculated a weighted overall NS-Sec figure—the measure of socio-economic class used by the the Office for National Statistics—for London’s super output areas in 2001 and 2011. He has then mapped the change. In red areas, the demographic profile of the area has gone upmarket. In blue ones, it has gone downmarket.

#cartographie #visualisation #londres #gentrification #royaume-uni