Streets and Gender

Data, High Density, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms

Bengaluru, Chennai, Cities, Cultural agitator, Cultural Urbanization, Gender, Identity, India, london, Mapping, Mumbai, New Delhi, Paris, Politics, San Francisco, urban, Urban Dialogue, Urban Paradigms, Women

Map Streets and Gender at Mapbox
Statistic by NamSor

Places and streets named after personalities are indicators of social hierarchy in a city. Often, they are as prestigious as the person they are named after, so we studied the distribution and location of gender in eponymous streets and made a map. We looked at the number of roads named after women versus men and their geographical distribution using OpenStreetMap data. To run the analysis, we put together a light script using Turf.js and Tile Reduce and queried OSM QA Tiles.