Mapping Silicon Valley’s Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
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Here’s an ironic thing: I spend a good part of my day designing maps and data visualizations that represent change, while working out of one of the most change-resistant corners in the city of San Francisco.
Digital flows of information and the capital that it’s generating are having a material input on the physical landscape.
For the past dozen or so years, the 16th and Mission Street BART plaza below the studio where we work has steadfastly hosted a diverse, rotating cast of characters — from drug dealers and preachers to musicians and hipsters, cheek by jowl with families, social activists, Social Security poets (sadly a shrinking population), and, increasingly but haltingly, young workers in the great technology fields to the south.
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