Audience

Historians

Renewing Inequality articulates the displacement of lower class families in urban communities all over the United States. The project then uses this information to provide a visual representation of this displacement through the use of maps.  Historians may be interested in this data for many reasons.  To name a few, they may use this information to better understand things such as racial inequality, urban societies, lower class families, government intervention, and industrialization during the mid to late 1900s in the United States.

Politicians/Government Officials

Politicians and government officials may be interested in this information in order to help shape their policies so that they gain the respect and backing of lower classes and minority voters.  Because urban renewal is an ongoing “project,” efforts put forth by those in a position of power to revitalize cities and to restore equality and unity within them would help them gain the support of many American voters.

Urban Planners

Since urban planners actually have the ability to really do something about and make a change in cities (similarly to the power of government officials), this information is important for them to gain a better understanding of the fragmentation of social, economic, and ethnic groups within cities.  This may and hopefully will provide the direction in which they conduct their projects, making efforts to better unite people within cities.

American Citizens

The closing statement written in the “The People & The Program” section of Renewing Inequality states that “The cities and suburbs we live in are the result of conscious choices.  It falls to us, then, to decide what kinds of cities we choose to live in in the future.”  This statement implies that it is our responsibility (especially those of urban communities) to take action and make an impact in urban societies.  Without our voices and contributions, there would be no incentive for anyone to renew equity and unity in cities today.

Disciplines

History

Understanding what happened in urban societies regarding the displacement, discrimination, and governmental influence in the United States during the mid to late 1900s is a product of the efforts put forth by historians in order to preserve and present this information.  With that said, this project would appeal to the discipline of history because of the significance of the events that took place as well as the fact that they still exist today.

Planning/Design

Because fragmentation in urban communities still exists today, the need for restructuring in cities by those who can make that happen, such as urban planners or politicians, is necessary to address and change these issues for the better.

Big Data

Renewing Inequality provides a multitude of data regarding things such as the number of displaced families in every given city across the country, the races affected and the magnitude to which each of them were affected, the amount of money subsidized to perform a given project and where and what that project was, and the year in which each of these things took place.   This plethora of data would be of interest in many ways to anyone involved in the use of big data to provide insight on ideas or representation of how to display and communicate information within a given framework.