Battle of the Flores

We began this project by asking how development has evolved along South Flores, and if this has altered the view of South Flores. We jumped into this project with the expectation that “development” solely included demolition and construction of buildings. However, the data that we’ve gathered to create this digital map has led us to re-examine the definition of development in relation to the activity that has occurred within this area. 

We hope that seeing the map and the information we present will open up conversations about development and what impacts this may be having on the community, both culturally and physically. 

We did not intend to have such a focus on businesses, but it happened naturally as we explored the data set. We noticed that most of the buildings in the data set were businesses. We have included residential buildings as well there are just less of them.