MIT’s Place Pulse juxtaposes two images from Google Streetview and asks subjective questions such as “which place looks safer?” The project was inspired by Kevin Lynch’s book The Image of the City, which focuses on urban planning and how people perceive their surroundings. The researchers hope to gather over a million votes, which could help them gather geotagged images into powerful groups, such as which area in New York City is deemed to look the safest. Once all of the information has been collated, the team of researchers will organize the data into graphs and present it in their report.”]
Source: https://gizmodo.com/why-do-we-judge-some-areas-as-being-safer-than-others-5831668