Re:Mapping Neighborhood-Level Obesity in the United States
by nrjames on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:47PM
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That could just be from gentrification pushing lower income people out of the city center. Similar things have happened in DC, Chicago, etc. This Wired article shows some of that effect. http://www.wired.com/2013/08/how-segregated-is-your-city-thi...
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Re:Mapping Neighborhood-Level Obesity in the United States
by pnathan on Friday October 09, 2015 @03:59PM
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I don't think so, at least in Seattle. Looking at the city breakdown, it corresponds to transit coverage and (my perception) transit friendliness. It actually seems to correspond inversely against income, since the transit coverage is vaguely inverse with Seattle income.
This is, by the way, a strong conflict with East Coast cities in the US, where there's a decided "obese area" visible. I don't have insight into those from the ground level.