Project 4 Visualizing Job Growth

Industry growth in Utah is projected to change significantly by 2050. Beyond just an increase in total overall jobs, Utahn cities are widelgy expected to shift its focus in the types of jobs citizens take. Salt Lake City, especially, is expected to show this trend as the main jobs taken by residents will shift from industrial to mainly o ce jobs.

The point of this exercise is to visualize this change in job growth and the change in industry trends. Visualizing such a change is extremely important as will allow cities to get ahead of the trend and plan for the future changes in their job market. This information informs and influences the future design of its cities and it outlines how cities and their populations will grow and adapt with it.

Job growth will be visualized through county scale projections released by the Utah Gardner Policy Institute further regionalized by Tra c Area Zone (TAZ) polygons and census tract polygons. These individual TAZ polygons and Census tract polygons will help create the location identity for each individual data analysis to be represented across the city.

As the original census tract data set contains all four of the career categories, individual tables had to be constructed. From there the data set was then converted into a 3D object in the form of a The four career categories are Industrial, Retail, O ce, and Non-typical.