URBAN DISCOURSE
Urban greenways present an exciting yet contentious movement within cities. This project tracks “rails-to-tracks” discourse in 4 cities, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago and New York, on Reddit. Through an analysis of 37,000 posts over a period of 13 years, using Machine Learning, the project illustrates how the conversations and sentiments have shifted online around the greenways, offering opportunities for policy makers, community organizers and urban activists glean novel insights.
Explore the interactive map of the Reddit discourse.