Great map from Nullspace (neighborhoods, move to, transportation)

[BrianTH]

From 1943, and more or less speaks for itself:



Nullspace: Prologue is Past

[escilade18]

Great map Brian, thanks for posting it. From what I take, this shows the beginning of the move to the burbs with the neighborhoods directly surrounding downtown having negative growth while further out ones such as Sq.Hill grew at almost a Vertical slope

[alleghenyangel]

The most interesting trend I can see from the map was the depopulation of downtown that occured after 1880. Before 1880, downtown had a large residential component, as the downtown area was the actual "city," and that spread out into other areas after.

[ML North]

Any volunteers to update it?

[BrianTH]

Yeah, one of the interesting things to me is that the downward trend in the core neighborhoods started well before the post-WWII suburbanization trend. And I suspect that the basic explanation is motorized transportation.