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Creative visual graphics can enhance the understanding of statistics. Based on population size instead of land mass, the Informal Settlement World Map displays global population growth in informal settlements in a way that makes the numbers more meaningful. Current slum populations are represented as orange squares distributed in a checkerboard pattern over black squares, which show overall population. Future population projections are depicted in shaded tones\u2014light orange for slum growth, gray for overall population growth. The resulting image shows what many viewers have likened to a \u201cfirebrand raging across the southern hemisphere.\u201d The shadows of future growth immediately illustrate the explosion in Africa and Asia. The design team used quantitative data from various sources, including UN-Habitat, which counts informal settlements, or \u201cslum households,\u201d as any that fulfill at least one of five criteria: inadequate housing, insufficient living space, insecure land tenure, and lack of access to improved water and improved sanitation.<\/div>\n
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Designers: Christian Werthmann, with Elizabeth Randall and Fiona Luhrmann, Harvard Graduate School of Design. United States, 2011<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did some digging and seems the team that made this info graphic is quite diverse. Christian Werthmann is a landscape architect at Harvard and the other two are design grad students I believe. Creative visual graphics can enhance the … Continue reading