Friday, January 28, 2011

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Mapping the ethnic mosaic of New York


The New York Times offers a menu of different communities living in New York, neighborhood by neighborhood, pointing to areas where the concentration of immigrant communities is the strongest.
The map continues to maintain the myth of "American melting pot by showing the wide variety of foreign communities present: old, like Chinatown, home to one of the largest diasporas, Korean, Pakistani, the European Eastern, Indian ... Beyond the fact of global human mobility, we also find that this type of card could be achieved only insofar as these strangers come together in communities, spatially identifiable.
Yet, one might consider such a mapping for the Parisian space, for example? Without doubt, more difficult to climb, not if it is only by the terms used to describe these communities ...
It seems that these names refer to differences in cultural differences that are expressed by and in cartography. The image of American immigration is one of the foundations of the nation of the United States, a common element of identity which allows speak more directly to communities ...


Source: The Map Room

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