CHARLOTTE – If you want to see how your Charlotte neighborhood has changed over the last 20 years, there’s now an app for that!
- A new exhibit at the Levine Museum of the New South uses an app to map Charlotte's inequality over time.
- The exhibit uses tablets to look at Charlotte block-by-block.
- If you don't have a tablet, one will be provided.
A UNC Charlotte professor designed the first-ever augmented reality exhibit for the Levine Museum of the New South.
If you tell UNC Charlotte’s Dr. Ming-Chun Lee your race, he can probably predict where you’re likely to live in Mecklenburg County.
“I think a lot of people understand, you know, we in charlotte have a racial division,” UNC Charlotte architecture urban design assistant professor Dr. Ming-Chun Lee says.
He’s trying to help even more people understand the shadow of segregation over the queen city.
Just open the app, point to a map and witness the evolution of how the average age, race, and income of a resident has changed over the last 20 years, he says.