Title: ON BROADWAY
Headings: On Broadway
On Broadway
Representing the modern city
The data street
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Data — Patterns and Findings
1 One street, two cities
2 A city of correlations
3 Tourists are coming!
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Content: In his 1923 book Toward an Architecture, Le Corbusier defined a modern house: “ A house is a machine for living in.” A century later, the whole city acts as a kind of machine, if we examine different variables. But there is also a different way to interpret this “correlated city.” Social inequality and digital divide are now joined by a social media divide which is even more extreme. In affluent areas, people make more money, take taxi, and post images on Instagram and Twitter. In poor areas, people make less money, rarely use taxi, and post much fewer images on social networks. 3 Tourists are coming! Since Broadway passes through a number of famous landmarks and also areas popular with tourists like SoHo, we can assume that a significant proportion of shared images in these areas come from tourists. Using the locations of images shared on Instagram along Broadway during six months in 2014, we identified 4 most active areas.