"The goal of this project is to make the best maps to show how people are concentrated in urban spaces. The conventional methods of measuring density of populations in cities rely on calculations of quantities of people living within a surface boundary and fail to account for the multiple floor residential patterns of the contemporary urban landscape. Conventional population density measurements do not characterize the crowdedness or spaciousness of the lived experience of people within cities. To create an accurate representation of people in contemporary urban spaces, a move beyond the conventional conception of density is needed. This research aims to find a more appropriate solution to mapping humans in cities by employing a dasymetric method to represent the distribution of people in a city of vertical residential structures."--From abstract.
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