New York CityManhattan Community District 3

Census Tract 27

67%

2.5%

30.5%44.9%

25.4%

29.7%The percentage of

Chinese speakers in Census Tract 27is 8 times theCity average.

speakEnglish?

speakanother

language?

What percentage of people ...

speakChinese?

40.8%

8.4%

50.8%

Census tracts in MCD3 that are closest to the center of

Chinatown

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40

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Census Tract (sorted left to right by proximity to Chinatown)

27

2.5%speak

anotherlanguage

67%speak

Chinese

30.5%speak

English

Chinatown

42

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34

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From China to Chinatown

CHINA

mid 1700sChinese

traders and sailors come

to the US

mid 1800sChinese flock to “Gold Mountain” California during

the gold rush

A brief history of Chinese immigration to Lower Manhattan

1840sConstruction of the

Central Pacific Railroad begins,

providing jobs for Chinese laborers

beginning in the 1870s

Chinese entrepreneurs establish hand

laundries throughout NYC

1860s - 1880sRising violence and

discrimination toward Chinese immigrants

causes them to flee to the big cities of the

eastern US for more job opportunities

1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act imposed strict

limits on Chinese immigration

Number of Chinese Residents in

Sunset Park ChinatownFlushing Chinatown

Lower Manhattan Chinatown

7,000+

34,554

28,681

200-1,100

Population of Chinese immigrants in Lower Manhattan’sChinatown

1943During WWII the

Chinese Exclusion Act

was discontinued

1968All other prohibitions

that prevented Chinese immigration were lifted,

and Chinatown experienced a massive

wave of new immigrants

2000s Getrification of

Chinatown begins to displace residents

CALI

NYC

English

Bilingual Signage in Census Tract 27

47 bilingual (Chinese/English) signs

16 signs in Chinese only

38 signs in English only

More signs in Chinese only

Mostly bilingual signage

More signs in English only

Monroe Stat

James St

Oliver Stat

Henry St

Park Rowat

St James Pl

Catherine Stat

Bowery

E Broadwayat

Catherine St

Henry Stat

Catherine St

Park Row

JamesMadison

Plaza

SOURCES:American Community Survey 2011U.S. Census 2010The Changing Chinatowns: Move over Manhattan, Sunset Park now home to most Chinese. NY Daily News.The History of New York’s Chinatown. Sarah Waxman.

New York City’s Chinatown in Lower Manhattan has become one of the most famous cultural hubs for Chinese immigrants in the United States. Unfortunately for this historical district, trends in recent years toward gentrification in and around Chinatown have displaced many residents. As a result of this, “Chinatowns” are growing in other areas of the City such as Sunset Park in Brooklyn and Flushing in Queens.

Census tract 27 is in Manhattan Community District 3 (also known as the Lower East Side and MCD3) but also finds itself situated very close to the heart of Chinatown. Influence from both of these historical neighborhoods can be observed in this census tract, making it a unique place to further investigate.

Gentrification can be difficult to quantify. Indicators such as median household income, median rent, and level of education are analyzed to attempt to understand where gentrification is happening. But sometimes these quantifiers can be misleading and should be supplemented with on-site field research. In the case of census tract 27, bilingual signage was explored as a possible indicator of gentrification. Locations that are dense in English-only signage within such a Chinese dominant area like this could be signifiers of gentrification in the future.

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2000 2010

VISUAL STORYTELLINGAND KEY GRAPHIC PRINCIPLESPLAN601E VERBAL AND VISUAL: INFORMATION GRAPHICS (SESSION 1)

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = TOOLS FOR VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Do you want to make a COMPARISON?

ISOTYPE SECTION SUPERGRAPHIC

NETWORK MAP MATRIXCONTINUUM DIAGRAM

FLOW CHART CYCLE DIAGRAM

GRAPH CHART DOT DENSITY

Do you want to show a PROCESS?

Do you want to show a RELATIONSHIP?

Do you want to explain a CONCEPT?

HOW TO BUILD A STORY

ACT 1: BEGINNINGACT 2: MIDDLEACT 3: END

WAYS TO TELL A STORYOrganize a presentation with three “acts” or “chapters”: 1) set the characters and context; 2) detail a problem/complexity; 3) Propose solutions or track actual or potential ways forward.

BUILD A CASE

Provide information and argue for a specific interpretation – revealing a way to look at the world

ACT 1: Baseline informationACT 2: AnalysisACT 3: Findings or proposal

WAYS TO TELL A STORYOrganize a presentation with three “acts” or “chapters”: 1) set the characters and context; 2) detail a problem/complexity; 3) Propose solutions or track actual or potential ways forward.

INDUCTIVE SURVEY

Describe existing conditions in depth and volume that puts a single phenomenon in context

ACT 1: Explore individual instancesACT 2: Explore potential causes and correlationsACT 3: Draw phenomenon into larger context and draw conclusions

WAYS TO TELL A STORYOrganize a presentation with three “acts” or “chapters”: 1) set the characters and context; 2) detail a problem/complexity; 3) Propose solutions or track actual or potential ways forward.

EXPLORE A SCENARIO

Explain a problem or condition through the experience of stakeholders

ACT 1: Describe a character and their issues/concerns ACT 2: Detail the mechanism that could serve themACT 3: Describe how the character is served by the proposed program or service

WAYS TO TELL A STORYOrganize a presentation with three “acts” or “chapters”: 1) set the characters and context; 2) detail a problem/complexity; 3) Propose solutions or track actual or potential ways forward.

EVALUATION

Explore the strengths and weaknesses of a given phenomenon, issue or dimension

ACT 1: Set a baseline: establish existing conditions and explain them in contextACT 2: Evaluate conditions or solutions via matrix comparison, continuum, pros and cons, etc.ACT 3: Make recommendations

HOW TO BUILD A STORY

PREMISE

SAMPLE PREMISES

Informal bike parking suggests a need for bike racks in Census Tract 2.02, and the DOT can address that need.

Where does curbside garbage from Community District 3 ultimately go? Why, and at what costs?

What is at the root of challenges in registering with the Department of Small Business Services, and how can these challenges be

NONE OF THESE ARE PREMISES

The history of Tompkins Square Park

A look at graffiti in Soundview

Community Gardens in Clinton Hill

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = SHOWING CONTEXT VISUALLYINFORMATION GRAPHICS = SHOWING CONTEXT VISUALLY

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = VISUAL AND NARRATIVE HIERARCHYINFORMATION GRAPHICS = VISUAL AND NARRATIVE HIERARCHY

Size / Scale Color Line Weight

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = EXPLAINING THROUGH VISUAL DIFFERENCE

ALTERNATIVE DATA MAPPING STRATEGIES

The Detroit Collaborative Design Center invited students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (where I was cross-registered) to produce a set of maps for a forthcoming publication aimed at visualizing undderrecognized geographic patterns in the city’s built form, history, culture and politics. The publication is to be inexpensively produced and distributed freely to city residents in an effort to counter an overabundance of discouraging and incomplete data on population and income loss. My approach began with Harvard’s 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a general conclusion

of which was that measures of social capital decreased nationwide with reported income. Knowing anecdotally that, in the absence of traditional civic structure, many Detroiters are well-connected to other less official groups, I investigated the robustness of the trend for the Survey’s Detroit sample. Using GIS, I mapped respondents’ group memberships by reported income and further disaggregated responses to reveal uneven correlations between the two variables. I produced a series of illustrative diagrams to convey the differences between responses both quantatitively and qualitatively.

EXPANDING USE OF GIS TO PRODUCE REPRESENTATIONS OF DETROIT, ITS PATTERNS, ASSETS AND POTENTIALS

ALTERNATIVE DATA MAPPING STRATEGIES

The Detroit Collaborative Design Center invited students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (where I was cross-registered) to produce a set of maps for a forthcoming publication aimed at visualizing undderrecognized geographic patterns in the city’s built form, history, culture and politics. The publication is to be inexpensively produced and distributed freely to city residents in an effort to counter an overabundance of discouraging and incomplete data on population and income loss. My approach began with Harvard’s 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a general conclusion

of which was that measures of social capital decreased nationwide with reported income. Knowing anecdotally that, in the absence of traditional civic structure, many Detroiters are well-connected to other less official groups, I investigated the robustness of the trend for the Survey’s Detroit sample. Using GIS, I mapped respondents’ group memberships by reported income and further disaggregated responses to reveal uneven correlations between the two variables. I produced a series of illustrative diagrams to convey the differences between responses both quantatitively and qualitatively.

EXPANDING USE OF GIS TO PRODUCE REPRESENTATIONS OF DETROIT, ITS PATTERNS, ASSETS AND POTENTIALS

ALTERNATIVE DATA MAPPING STRATEGIES

The Detroit Collaborative Design Center invited students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (where I was cross-registered) to produce a set of maps for a forthcoming publication aimed at visualizing undderrecognized geographic patterns in the city’s built form, history, culture and politics. The publication is to be inexpensively produced and distributed freely to city residents in an effort to counter an overabundance of discouraging and incomplete data on population and income loss. My approach began with Harvard’s 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a general conclusion

of which was that measures of social capital decreased nationwide with reported income. Knowing anecdotally that, in the absence of traditional civic structure, many Detroiters are well-connected to other less official groups, I investigated the robustness of the trend for the Survey’s Detroit sample. Using GIS, I mapped respondents’ group memberships by reported income and further disaggregated responses to reveal uneven correlations between the two variables. I produced a series of illustrative diagrams to convey the differences between responses both quantatitively and qualitatively.

EXPANDING USE OF GIS TO PRODUCE REPRESENTATIONS OF DETROIT, ITS PATTERNS, ASSETS AND POTENTIALS

ALTERNATIVE DATA MAPPING STRATEGIES

The Detroit Collaborative Design Center invited students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (where I was cross-registered) to produce a set of maps for a forthcoming publication aimed at visualizing undderrecognized geographic patterns in the city’s built form, history, culture and politics. The publication is to be inexpensively produced and distributed freely to city residents in an effort to counter an overabundance of discouraging and incomplete data on population and income loss. My approach began with Harvard’s 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a general conclusion

of which was that measures of social capital decreased nationwide with reported income. Knowing anecdotally that, in the absence of traditional civic structure, many Detroiters are well-connected to other less official groups, I investigated the robustness of the trend for the Survey’s Detroit sample. Using GIS, I mapped respondents’ group memberships by reported income and further disaggregated responses to reveal uneven correlations between the two variables. I produced a series of illustrative diagrams to convey the differences between responses both quantatitively and qualitatively.

EXPANDING USE OF GIS TO PRODUCE REPRESENTATIONS OF DETROIT, ITS PATTERNS, ASSETS AND POTENTIALS

ALTERNATIVE DATA MAPPING STRATEGIES

The Detroit Collaborative Design Center invited students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (where I was cross-registered) to produce a set of maps for a forthcoming publication aimed at visualizing undderrecognized geographic patterns in the city’s built form, history, culture and politics. The publication is to be inexpensively produced and distributed freely to city residents in an effort to counter an overabundance of discouraging and incomplete data on population and income loss. My approach began with Harvard’s 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a general conclusion

of which was that measures of social capital decreased nationwide with reported income. Knowing anecdotally that, in the absence of traditional civic structure, many Detroiters are well-connected to other less official groups, I investigated the robustness of the trend for the Survey’s Detroit sample. Using GIS, I mapped respondents’ group memberships by reported income and further disaggregated responses to reveal uneven correlations between the two variables. I produced a series of illustrative diagrams to convey the differences between responses both quantatitively and qualitatively.

EXPANDING USE OF GIS TO PRODUCE REPRESENTATIONS OF DETROIT, ITS PATTERNS, ASSETS AND POTENTIALS

Size / Scale Color Line Weight

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = EXPLAINING THROUGH VISUAL DIFFERENCES

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = USING GRIDS

Leading the eye. Rule of thirds.

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = PROVIDING VISUAL STRUCTURE

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = MAKING VISUAL COMPARISONSINFORMATION GRAPHICS = MAKING VISUAL COMPARISONS

COURSE STRUCTURE

WK.1

2

3

4

5

TOPICSVisual Storytellingand Key Graphic Principles

Principles of Graphic Design Single Dimension Comparisons

Design ProcessSequence, Flow & Connection

Design DiscretionEvaluative & Synthetic Graphics

Constructing a Visual NarrativeStoryboarding

DEMOFactFinderPhoto HighlightsNarrative Layout

Charts / Graphs with Illustrator

Flowcharts / Small Multiples with Illustrator

Continuum Diagram / Matrix with Illustrator and InDesign

Formatting and Layout with InDesign

ASSIGNMENTData collectionPhoto-documentation

Charts / GraphsIcons

Flowcharts / Timelines

Continium Diagram / Matrix

Slide PresentationA1 Poster

COURSE STRUCTURE

COURSE COMPONENTSReadings (x 2)Case StudiesLectures / Demonstrations5-part Assignment• Census Tract / Study Area• Weekly slide deck + JPEG submission• Final presentation

GRADING

Assignment 1: 10%Assignment 2: 10%Assignment 3: 10%Assignment 4: 10%Assignment 5: 20%Case Study Presentation: 10%Online Participation: 10%In-Class Participation: 20%

ASSIGNMENT GRADING CRITERIA4 pts Clarity and coherence of narratives constructed;3 pts Thoughtfulness, suitability and/or creativity in

representation;2 pts Engagement with and evaluation of different

representational strategies (as evidenced in the slide deck by sketches, precedents, notes and finished work);

1 pt Deployment of software tools demonstrated in the course, as appropriate.

WEEKLY DEADLINESS Su M T W Th F

BLOG / COURSE MATERIALS

http://prattinfographics.wordpress.com

score and feedback returned

blog commentsdue by midnight

assignment due by 9 am

class

Now we’ll assign census tracts or study areas for the assignment.

There are 12 census tracts in the study area. They are displayed here in ascending order.

NORTH BROOKLYN STUDY AREA

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537539545547549551

TIME TO VOLUNTEER FOR CASE STUDIES!

WEEK 2

Design tools / Single-dimension comparisons• The Visual Display of Quantitative

Information• Florence Nightingale• Otto Neurath

WEEK 4

Design discretion / Evaluative and synthetic graphics• “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint” • Envisioning Information

WEEK 3

Design process / Sequence, flow and connection• “The Works” / Kate Ascher • The RSVP Cycles / Lawrence Halprin• Mark Lombardi

WEEK 5

Constructing a Visual Narrative• Design with Nature• Taxi07: Roads Forward / Design Trust• Fordham Plaza / NYCEDC