The article “Class Places and Place Classes: Geodemographics and the Spatialization of Class” by Parker et al., (2007) introduced the concept of geodemographics and on a small research study that focused on geodemographic classification, the relationship between ‘class places’ and ‘places classes’ and their co-construction.
I found this article to be quite interesting, particularly the parts that touched on the merge of this type of data with web technologies. This would allow for data to be interacted with by a larger portion of the population with greater ease.
After reading this article I was left with a few questions. One of these being what the effects of this type of data are. Taking the case of this article and the research study done, this sort of generalization of residents in urban neighborhoods to create a classification seems problematic. As the information gets used, people’s perceptions of places are based on census data. I feel this highlights socioeconomic differences in urban settings and further divides populations based on differences.