The Martin Prosperity Institute has published a report into the urban geography of Canada, called The Divided City. The report argues that Canadian cities are immediately divided betwixt 3 principal social classes; the creative class, the service shape in addition to the working class.
To illustrate the results of the report The Martin Prosperity Institute has released an interactive map visulaizing where the 3 principal classes alive inwards Toronto, Vancouver in addition to Montreal. The Geography of Class inwards Canadian Cities uses the Esri mapping platform to exhibit a map of each of the 3 cities.
On each of the urban gist maps neighborhoods are colored to betoken the predominant class. You tin besides click on each neighborhood on the map to persuasion the per centum of each shape inwards the area. In all 3 cities the centers are dominated past times the affluent creative class, who besides tend to radiate out along transit lines. The poorer working shape has been pushed out inwards all 3 cities, amongst hardly whatever predominantly working shape neighborhoods left inwards Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.
