Introduction & Context
The City of Philadelphia is victim to a great amount of eviction and number of dilapitated buildings. It is important to understand building demolitions in a city to identify the areas that are undergoing redevelopment. Building demolitions often give way to opportunity for new real estate developments, which sometimes leads to gentrification.
Utilizing building demolition data from OpenDataPhilly, this analysis examines different methods to visualize building demolitions in Philadelphia from January 1st 2007 to September 22nd 2022.