Tim St. Onge

As part of my fellowship with Azavea's Summer of Maps program, I worked with the Community Design Collaborative to perform a suitability analysis of Philadelphia to determine parts of the city that would be strong candidates for park revitalization grants. The Community Design Collaborative, a Philadelphia-based non-profit that provides pro bono architecture and design consulting services to low- and moderate-income communities, was interested in determining candidacy based on a range of socioeconomic and built-environment variables, including family poverty, youth population, and impervious surface coverage. My work on the project included data collection, data management, and spatial analysis, culminating in a comprehensive report on the geography of grant candidacy in Philadelphia and in-depth profiles of top candidate sites.