Can You Tell the Difference Between Rich and Poor Neighborhoods in These Satellite Images?
- Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:09pm by
Liz Klimas
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There are often stark differences between the looks of wealthy and poor neighborhoods. But one of the features that you might not have considered as a defining factor are trees.
Tim DeChant for Per Square Mile, a blog about density, says that richer neighborhoods have more trees than those less well off. He writes:
Research published a few years ago shows a tight relationship between per capita income and forest cover. The study’s authors tallied total forest cover for 210 cities over 100,000 people in the contiguous United States using the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s natural resource inventory and satellite imagery. They also gathered economic data, including income, land prices, and disposable income.
They found that for every 1 percent increase in per capita income, demand for forest cover increased by 1.76 percent. But when income dropped by the same amount, demand decreased by 1.26 percent. That’s a pretty tight correlation. The researchers reason that wealthier cities can afford more trees, both on private and public property. The well-to-do can afford larger lots, which in turn can support more trees. On the public side, cities with larger tax bases can afford to plant and maintain more trees. Given the recent problems New York City has had with its aging trees dropping limbs on unsuspecting passers-by—and the lawsuits that result—it’s no surprise that poorer cities would keep lean tree inventories.
DeChant then wanted to see — literally — if you could tell the difference between richer and poorer areas based on tree coverage. He took to Google Earth in order to peer down on neighborhoods via satellite, and here’s what he found:
Poor: Rochinha neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. (Image: Google Earth via Per Square Mile)
Rich: Zona Sul neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. (Image: Google Earth via Per Square Mile)
Poor: West Oakland of Oakland, Calif. (Image: Google Earth via Per Square Mile)
Rich: Piedmont area of Oakland, Calif. (Image: Google Earth via Per Square Mile)
Poor: Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago. (Image: Google Earth via Per Square Mile)
Rich: Hyde Park of Chicago. (Image: Google Earth via Per Square Mile)
Can you tell the difference?
See more of DeChant’s comparison photos here. Per Square Mile is a blog that, according to its description, is “about what happens when people live like packed sardines. It’s also about what happens when people live so far apart they can go days without seeing another soul. It’s about living amongst trees and prairies, and living in places miles away from them. It’s about the trees and the prairies, too. And lakes and streams and animals and insects.”
[H/T Business Insider]
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Comments (174)
ALISSTER
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:57pmFunny, Obama has a house in the last picture of Hyde Park and yet he’s the savior to the poor.
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:27pmThat is because President Obama got a sweetheart loan deal from one of George W. Bush’s Pioneer level campaign contributors.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:32pmThese shots are Fan-Tastic!
I have been trying to take photos like this for years, but somebody keeps moving at the last second!
LOL
POW-MIA remember their still living families
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:36pmI‘m sure they’ll now have to find a way to rectify this injustice.
Report Post »chazmo
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:36pm@MaryBeth
so what does that really say about your Hero Obama….
Report Post »chazmo
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:40pmhahaha..
A cursory glance at campaign contribution records demonstrates that Northern Trust officials were clearly in Sen. Obama’s hip pocket. Since 1990, employees of Northern Trust have contributed more than $71,000 to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Five of 13 board members of Northern Trust had given previously to Obama’s Senate campaign before the Obamas received their home loan, including Northern Trust Chairman William Osborn, who contributed $1,000 on Sept. 30, 2003. Further, the bank’s political action committee, the Northern Trust Employees Good Government Fund, contributed $1,250 to Obama in 2004.
Even the Northern Trust management has personal connections to Obama, including current Exelon (Commonwealth Edison) Chairman and CEO John Rowe – a later successor of Bill Ayers’ father, Tom Ayers, who has been a member of the bank’s board of directors since 2004. Another board member is Susan Crown, whose family has been one of Obama’s proven fundraisers. Crown’s brother and sister-in-law, Jim and Paula Crown, are bundlers for Obama, and the Crown family has given at least $56,000 to Obama campaigns. Northern Trust general counsel Kelly R. Walsh, who contributed $1,500 to Obama a little more than one month before the Obamas were given their home loan, is married to current Joyce Foundation President Ellen Alberding. Alberding coincidentally served on the board of the Joyce Foundation with Obama in 2001.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:49pmI would make my yard look real nice…..But I dont want my property taxes going up
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:18pmPresident Obama is not my hero. I’m just pointing out that the past two presidents have the same supporters, at least the ones with large checkbooks.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:26pm@soybomb315
“I would make my yard look real nice…..But I dont want my property taxes going up”
Just tell Code Enforcement that you have a Constitutional Right to “Rustic Ramshackle”. If they write you up, sue the Code Enforcement Agent “personally” for violating your Constitutional rights and Code Enforcement will drop the Agent and the “write up” like a hot potato.
Worked for a friend of mine. : )
Report Post »TheCoffinMaker
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:48pmWelfare folks have a habit of carving pathways right over a nice lawn instead of using the sidewalk.
Those who work to own property tend to spend a little extra on their water bill to sprinkle their lawns.
Welfare folks fling their cigarette butts and EBT card receipts on the sidewalk.
Those who work to own property rake leaves, plant flowers, feed the birds, and pick up cigarette butts and EBT card receipts.
Report Post »D-Fence
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:44pmYeah MaryElizabethKnucklehead, like Tony Rezcon.
Report Post »Legion5
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:51pmI might be mistaken but I have heard several times the house Obama lived in in Chicago was a rental they did not own a home. It would be nice to verify this!
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:07pmHey JZS,
I think I beat you to the punch on this one.
It’s really an insidious plot by the Koch brothers, and all the rich folk.
They are hoarding all the oxygen for themselves, so as to deprive the poor and the working class the ability to breath…….right?
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:07pm@MBE
Report Post »Welcome to the party, honey! I can forward you a link to the nearest Tea Party in your neighborhood if you like. We are all done with cronyism. News Flash: this is not about political party affiliation. It’s about the TRUTH of the dirt bags that have hijacked our country. Everything else is debatable.
EP46
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 6:57amhttp://www.zillow.com/blog/files/2008/09/obamas-house.jpg
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:48amMystery solved!!! Because of the bad “Bush Economy” the poor folks have to cut down their trees for fire wood because they are being price gouged by those evil electric and gas companies….
Report Post »ALISSTER
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:58ammarybethelizabeth
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:27pm
That is because President Obama got a sweetheart loan deal from one of George W. Bush’s Pioneer level campaign contributors.
No he didn’t, he was involved with Syrian born Tony Rezco. Patty Blagojevich was also a broker for Rezco while convicted Rod Blagojevich was governor of Illinois. The terrorist Bill Ayers also lives in the same neighborhood, but Obama never met him. He just launched his Illinois Senate campaign in Bill Ayers living room. Bill Ayers father Thomas Ayers, who was CEO of Commonweath Edison from 1973 to 1980, paid for part of Obama’s education too. But they still never met.
I’ve been living in the Chicago since 1970 and have seen all of these criminals in action long before you even heard of Obama. Until 4 years ago, you probably thought Obama was a company that delivered steaks to your front door.
Once again, nothing to do with Bush.
Report Post »atrain
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:56pmIf you want more trees be rich. If you want to be rich then work hard or go to school, or both at the same time. See, that was simple.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:39pmand if you are poor, like Romney said – just borrow $50,000 from your parents
Report Post »Tax Revolt
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:20pm@soybomb315; At least Romney’s parents were responsible enough to be able to provide for him if he needed it. Kinda like P. Diddy and his boy. I am sure he is a great kid and an excellent fb player, does he need a full ride scholarship? No his dad can pay for is college. Don’t hear to many people complaining about that. Some other kid out there who is an excellent player, student, and from a broken poor single family home just got screwed out of that scholarship.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:30pmIts not that he grew up under a rich family.
Its that Mitt, as an adult, thinks the rest of us have families like his….Anyways, I’m just making light of it
Report Post »DoubleThrowDown
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:48pm@soybomb a little research will go along way, if you look it up you will see that Romney donated all the money he inherited from his parents to charity. So it looks like Romney made his money the good old fashion American way, he earned it.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:30pm@soybomb
“and if you are poor, like Romney said – just borrow $50,000 from your parents”
Romney is the nominee, get OVER IT. Living in denial is no way to live. Sorry your pal RuPaul didn’t win a single state, that’s no reason to live in misery for the rest of your life.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:31pmi never said he didnt earn it – what are you smoking
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:35pmMost of us knew Ron Paul would never win. What i will not ‘get over’ is how romney is the worst we can do
Report Post »noesterdamos
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:03amToo simple my friend, you said a dirty word “work”, and hard at that. God forbid we should expect people these days to gain wealth the old fashion way.
Report Post »flatbroke
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:55pmNow i know why i do not live in the city, i could not live in an area which there are no trees, bonus i live in the midwest and there are more trees, and grass, and plants. love it.
Report Post »BoyScout_Mom
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:57pmThe new bath-salt cannibals would be reason enough for me to move my family out of the city For-Ever.
Thank goodness I live in a rural lake community of 1100. Heaven.
Report Post »term limits for congress
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:16pmI was fortunate enough to visit Singapore – beautiful and clean in a tropical jungle. That’s the way it should be done.
In contrast, Cairo is a smokey, smoggy, smelly, crowded uban desert. Ugh.
It’s all about planning, which we do not seem to do in the US. Instead, we regulate.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:20pmThe Trees Know.
Report Post »amyb73
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:49pmWell, that does it! Someone needs to pull up those trees immediately and re-plant them in the poorer areas! Who do those rich people think they are, hogging all of the trees?? Gee whiz, those greedy SOB’s…
Report Post »Tax Revolt
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:22pmYes. Yes. I love it. A call for a redistribution of trees.
Report Post »Free_Thinker
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:27pmLol
Report Post »raderby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:43pmthe peasants obviously burned the trees as firewood to stay warm and cook their food – the USA is at fault, right? They must be – google and the UN will soon try and start a revolution in the USA – oh wait- already in progress……
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:51pmThis correlation needs to be explained to the enviro-communists. Wealthy cultures have the luxury of protecting the environment; poor cultures do not.
Destroying industry in an attempt to “protect” wilderness inevitably leads to lower standards of living and apathy toward nature.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:42pmThe roofing materials in the rich complexes are better quality and there are more decorative features and penthouses. At night there will be less neon lights, traffic signals and police cars in the rich areas too. This is well known technique for developing large real estate projects and for figuring out the demographic wealth to facilitate deciding where to locate a nearby shopping center or mall. Imagery these days will even reveal automobiles, the richer the neighborhood, the less outdoor parking.
POW MIA – never forget
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:05pmNah, need strong roofs in the projects so they can stand on them a la katrina, and shoot other peeps from those strong roofs too when they dis da hood. At night the crack heads and hos light up their bic lighters when there are no lightning bugs around and the ambiance is sweetness incarnate. Roasting smell of feral dog on a stick and a dirt pie. Mmm. Mmm. MMmmVote Dem for more of the same.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:35pmUsing this theory, inhabitants in the upper Midwest here must have been very rich in the 1700s & 1800s.
Report Post »Azzman
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:20pmTimber farmers from the time you mentioned were indeed some of the richest early Americans.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:56pmPeople in Hong Kong must be very very poor….
Report Post »The Sergeant Major
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:35pmSo short of the story is that wealthy people are better tree huggers than the poor? Just move out of the failing democrat cities and buy land to better provide for your Family.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:17pmHow many tree’s can you find on a solar farm ?
Report Post »Environmentalist don’t think about that.
Constructionist
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:32pmFinally, there is definitive proof! It’s not industrialization, unchecked home constructruction, or poor zoning/resource management that decimates the forests…. it’s poor people. We should eliminate everyone who makes less than six figures to save the world’s flora. As Al Gore says, “the debate is over”.
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:53pmThe study is talking about already-industrialized areas. Wealthy areas have more resources availabe to improve their habitat.
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:17pmThe cost of this stupid study was money well spent I’m sure…
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:32pmSo, what we can conclude that the good that the rich do to repair the damage the poor do to our eco-system is evident even from space.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:32pmWhen I first got married, we could only afford a house in San Jose, California. Not long after moving in, it became popular for home owners to concrete over their lawns to make room for a boat loads of junk cars. The mayor managed to get a law passed making this practice illegal but it didn’t help. Luckily I was able to move.
Report Post »freedom for sale
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:30pmTrees are the number one cause of air oxification. Look it up.
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:54pmActually, it’s the oceans.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:41pmI believe one won’t do well without the other.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:58pm@tx chris.
You are correct, but to be more specific, it’s algae.
I’ve highlighted the important parts.
http://marker.to/kNwHYQ
Report Post »psychokittis
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:52pmGrass arnks about # 2
Report Post »jamestoms
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:29pmWe don’t need no high altitude views, you can see this from any ground level view of cities any where.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:32pmIt’s much safer from the air.
Report Post »raderby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:39pmwhich google demons are happy to display
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:26pmRich neighborhoods have more trees and fewer Obama signs. They‘re rich because they’re not stupid.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:27pmThey also have less primates swinging on them.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:24pmThe way is clear. Richer people have more of something than poorer people. Tax TAX TAX NOW!
Pretty soon the only difference between richer people & poorer people will be the former have to get out of bed & work 40 to 80 hours a week.
The Motley Monk Blog: Remember the 1996 “Al Gore” telephone tax?
http://themotleymonk.blogspot.com/2011/03/remember-1996-al-gore-telephone-tax.html
News Analysis: Debate Over ‘Gore Tax’ Heats Up, 6/4/98
http://www.techlawjournal.com/telecom/80604.htm
How LONG Will We Be PAYING Al Gore’s Universal Connectivity Tax?
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CulperGang
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:00pmricher people don’t have more tax. the highest tax are the middle class. the rich may pay up front higher, but ALL THE LOOPHOLES and the tax offsets bring them down to a whopping 15/10%. Look it up. Why do you think there is NO PUSH for a Fairtax or Flattax by politicians???? what pizz off their rich donors???
Report Post »THE MIDDLE CLASS BEARS THE RICH AND THE POOR CLASSES tax burden. When the middle class gets off their duffs and demands tax reform. THAT IS when the shake down will cease.
The head of the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND PAYS NO TAX(on drudge)!!!!!
The whole taxation system is a SCAM by politicians and their banker puppetmasters. When the cops stop people from rising up against this scam then thing scan change. While the cops are beating people down on behest of the criminal politicians, nothing will change until the top blows in a full blown bloodfest at which time a lot of cops, politicians and dissenters will be slaughtered as the BANKERS get rich by “rebuilding the infrastructure.” The hand writing is on the wall.
BoyScout_Mom
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:31pmCulper – I believe there is a lot of truth in what you are saying. Even Glenn had Robert Kiyosaki on not long ago, attempting to explain the Tax Quadrant, stating that the truly wealthy, uber wealthy do not pay taxes through a variety of shelters/businesses. I believe this is true. Just please do not make me vote for Ron Paul or join OWS.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:50pmCulperGang
The liberals try to get the rich to pay more. In the end the liberals create “donut holes”. There are “donut holes” when it comes to paying for education & health care”
If liberals touch something ling enough,m there will be a donut hole. Now they are trying to create donut holes in transportation & energy. They can never get the mixed model economy right.
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:23pmBush stole all the trees.
Report Post »brancal19
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:37pmThe ones he didn’t steal, he destroyed with hurricane katrina
Report Post »chazmo
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:44pmJoplin=Bush’s fault
Report Post »TommyJH54
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:22pmLooks like the mean, nasty, greedy rich are doing their part for the eco-system!
Report Post »rs9
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:21pmthe borders of Isreal are just as easily seen, it is green on the Isreal side from the millions of trees that have been planted since 1948 and the Pukestinians have done nothing but destroy their surroundings
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:35pmYeah, I‘m sure the Palestinians’ state of forced poverty and foreign military rule has nothing to do with it.
Report Post »brancal19
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:44pmThe palestinians have equal oppurtunity in israel. Their hatred gets in the way of success.
Report Post »KevINtampa
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:53pmI agree with Vox, the Palestinian plight over thousands of years brought about by constant abuses by Egypt, Persia (Iran) and Jordan has seriously hampered Palestinian development. Being a constant whipping post of all those countries must not be easy. You’d think they would look at their history and the history of the Jews and realize they have more in common with Israel than with those setting their region up yet again for a war zone…
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:56pmThere’s really nothing stopping Palestinians from devloping industry and trading with the rest of the world.
Well, except for Israeli machin guns. But still, capitalism has risks…
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:06pmvox_populi
Report Post »I am sure that the Palestinians being ceded the North of Gaza for peace, destroying all the green house to launch rockets instead of growing crops has nothing to do with their poverty.
Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:11pmTexas Chris
If the Palestinians grew crops, trucked them across the border to Egypt, the Israelis would stop them?
You’re higher than a kite.
The Palestinians get free money from the UN. They could use it to set up businesses like farms, call centers, manufacturing. Instead they merely launch rocket s into Israel.
Oh & Muslims Palestinians kill Palestinian Christians too. That must be Israels’ fault too. Right Chris?
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:26pmThe Palestinians PLIGHT is the fact that they are blood thirsty Muslims who want total destruction of Isreal.
I’m sick of this “plight of the palestinian” BS!
Report Post »Stone Cold Truth
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:13pmKevin, the Palestineans don’t have thousands of years of history. They have less than 100years history because they never existed before World War II. There was Egypt, Jordan, and Saudia Arabia under the Ottoman Empire. Palestine was created when Arabs refused to leave a wasteland buffer zone between the new Israel, Jordan, and Egypt because they wanted Israel despite losing WWII with Hitler. Jordan and Egypt refused to take the territory and the people in it, so to this day they live in a crappy wasteland in between several real countries because they chose to stay there to “kill the Jews.” True story, bro.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:20pmAl Gore is going to put a surtax or sin tax on tree purchases to fund trees for the poor just like he jacked everyone’s telephone bill.
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:19pmUm, nicer areas are usually better kept. DUH-OH! Crappy older city areas are cheaper to live, but nobody takes care of anything. Duh-OH! Find me a bum who plants trees.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:17pmAnd…………………
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:16pmI have a tree in my yard and a two baby trees.
Does that make me rich ?
Well no, but it sure makes it nicer to live there.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:25pmThat was what I noticed as the difference .. trees .. darn I must be rich ( I have a palm tree 5 fruit trees and two shade trees in Florida) and stinking rich (I have a LITTLE cottage in Michigan surrounded by trees so much that you can’t see any of the houses from google earth in that area).
Report Post »freedom for sale
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:27pmNo it makes you poor. You should own at least five trees.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:30pmYou have now put a bulls eye on yourself. Some enterprising young liberal named Don Quitoxic will find you 7 tax you for the audacity of having more trees than some who didn’t win the birth lottery & was unfortunate to be born poor.
The King of England used to tax windows of houses. State government literally have the ability to tax you per plumbing fixture that you have in your house. Electronic databases meets politicians & the tax paying public loses.
I once saw a house in England that was around 400 years old. They actually bricked up a few windows so as to not pay taxes that they could not or would not afford. It is in the town of Salisbury England.
Report Post »rougarou
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:15pmGrass doesn’t grow where they walk.
Report Post »okredstate
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:14pmAnd what federal government agency funded this boondoggle?
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:12pmA beautiful point for me not living in a big city.
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:57pmSame here.
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