The results are in from the stellar Toronto Star team again. This week-end, they released two sets of maps, in many ways the obverse of each other:
- One set is the final in a series mapping where first-year students at Toronto-area universities live, and
- the other set shows the home residences of people in Ontario’s provincial jails.
The latter map is the result of a court order, as described in a previous post and a strong contribution to the argument for place-based interventions. Our thanks to them.
The maps looking at university admissions also support the work being done by the Toronto District School Board’s researchers who have mapped university applications and other academic indicators by neighbourhood.
These unsettling maps lay how applicants to one of the most prestigious universities in Canada live in different worlds than the the places where people are being jailed. Opportunities are literally mapped out.
The co-incidental (?) and simultaneous release of maps is evocative of the statistic that, in many American inner cities, there are more young men in jail than in college or university.
I’ll look at more of the details in these maps in another post.
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