Population Density in Los Angeles County, California
Bonjour / Hallo / Hi!
I’m a Brussels-based graduate student at KU Leuven and the V.U.B. currently pursuing an M.Sc. in Geography. I focus on spatial data science and the urban political economy of housing development. I also work in data visualization, cartography, and urban design:
I am currently serving as the data visualization lead and cartographer for Southland: A Los Angeles County Atlas and Almanac, edited by Dr. William Deverell and Dr. Wade Graham. We are a project of the USC-Huntington Institute on California and the West and funded by a grant from the Haynes Foundation. See a sneak preview of my mapping work in Zócalo Public Square. The book is under contract with the University of Chicago Press and is forthcoming in 2024.
Drop me an email (humans only - ez rawitsch at g mail dot com) and let’s talk about it! Or, let’s talk about some of my other work:
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I worked for Alexandros Washburn, former Chief Urban Designer of New York, developing new projects in New York and North Carolina, helping to host his public office hours in Brooklyn, building models for a new island in New York Harbor, and launching the Model Block.
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I researched and wrote a thesis follwoing how post-socialist spaces have been adapted to suit urban market economies in surprising ways - and conducted my fieldwork in a marketplace on the outskirts of Prague, Czechia. It was published in late 2020 in Lidé města / Urban People, Charles University in Prague’s journal of urban anthropology. Read it here.
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I spent a summer interning with Habitat for Humanity International in Bratislava, Slovakia, working with my colleagues to understand public spaces from the perspective of users in Central and Eastern Europe.
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I wrote & produced a variety of audio content, including these original audio essays. I also assisted in producing, recording, and editing the 27 Views Podcast, a literary interview show dedicated to writers from the American South.
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I founded and edited Volume Magazine, a publication dedicated to the perspective of young people living in Los Angeles - a city that is often caricatured and misunderstood.
Other recent work includes my time as a member of the Editorial Board of the Carolina Planning Journal, and my investigation into the socioeconomic impact of physical infrastructure, focused on Durham, North Carolina and under the guidance of Prof. Javier Arce-Nazario working in R and Python to model how railroad tracks and other infrastructure correlate with socioeconomic inequality.
