Gazing on the High Line Park The production and consumption of tourist place

Ate Poorthuis University of Kentucky

AAG | 2012-02-25

Tourist Gaze

2008

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2011

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2011

2008

It is an indie park, an anti-campus, a pair of pre-ripped skinny jeans to Times Square’s creased 550s. The Times Square plaza dissipates into the sidewalk, but the High Line is a tight and narrow catwalk, a picture with a frame. – New Yorker, August 2009

The body remains, but the soul has vanished. The Highliner is representative, though, of the new Chelsea that is emerging on weekends, as visitors !ood the elevated park the restaurant is named after: touristy, overpriced, and shiny. It is not uncommon to see guidebooks and maps spread out on the nascent eatery’s outdoor tables. – New Yorker, 2011

Epidemiology

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Space-Time Permutation Scan Statistic (Kulldorff et al. 2005) SaTScan (satscan.org)

SUMMARY OF DATA Study period..................: 2009/1/1 to 2011/12/31 Number of locations...........: 84 Total number of cases.........: 20536 ________________________________________________________________ MOST LIKELY CLUSTER 1.Location IDs included.: 33, 32, 34, 24, 42, 23, 25, 41 Coordinates / radius..: (40.750713 N, 74.002240 W) / 0.28 km Time frame............: 2011/6/1 to 2011/7/31 Number of cases.......: 528 Expected cases........: 225.76 Observed / expected...: 2.34 Test statistic........: 148.616129 P-value...............: < 0.000000000000000010 SECONDARY CLUSTERS 2.Location IDs included.: 66, 65, 67, 57, 75, 56, 58 Coordinates / radius..: (40.742714 N, 74.008240 W) / 0.28 km Time frame............: 2009/6/1 to 2009/7/31 Number of cases.......: 879 Expected cases........: 509.87 Observed / expected...: 1.72 Test statistic........: 113.022723 P-value...............: < 0.000000000000000010

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Further Disaggregation

Multinomial Space-Time Clustering

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