Friday, June 29, 2018

Website Review: Street Change

STREET CHANGE is a web-based project showing changes in urban landscapes over time.
This interactive map helps scholars measure changes in the physical appearance of neighborhoods by examining Google Street View images over time. Users select from views of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, New York, and Washington, DC. By clicking on hotspots on a map, students can see how a particular location has changed over time.
Librarians will find this to be a useful way to talk with students about urban geography. Work with social studies and computer science teachers to show how technology can be used to assist scholarly research.
To visit the website, go to http://streetchange.media.mit.edu/.