Zooming in on Echo Park: The racial mapping project

Photographer Eric Fischer was inspired by a Chicago map created by Bill Rankin that displayed the city’s racial and ethnic divides. He created maps of other cities like New York City, Houston, and Los Angeles using the same techniques Rankin did, applying date from the 2000 census. I took the Los Angeles map and zoomed in on the  Echo Park area. Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot equals a total of 25 people. For some perspective, the little empty round area near the middle of the above graphic is Dodger Stadium.

You can check out the rest of the Los Angeles map by clicking here or on the image below. You’ll notice… there are a lot of white people on the west side!

One Response to “Zooming in on Echo Park: The racial mapping project”

1. Chris L says:

   September 29, 2010 at 5:17 pm

   It’ll be interesting to see how much things have changed when the 2010 census data comes in (in 2011). I predict Echo Park that we’ll see a lot more red dots in Echo Park.

   Hopefully this guys is inspired to redo his maps with the new data.