London’s gentrification is a tale told by social media
Apr14
Like all big cities around the world, London’s urban areas are being transformed into trendy, gentrified neighborhoods. Not everybody is a fan of this process, which usually leads to some level of corporate intrusion and rising costs for longtime residents, so researchers at Cambridge have devised a method of predicting what neighborhoods are likely to be gentrified next. How? Through social media, of course. The academics investigated half a million Tweets and check-ins on Foursquare over a 10 month period. Combining that information with things like census, crime and housing data, the researchers developed a scale of ‘social diversity’ for…
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