Detections & Maps
In our work as entrepreneurs in the economic development space, we often come across real opportunities with no one who can see them to act on them.
These come from looking at a place with nothing in the way. Not clouded by a contract, not filtered through a deliverable, not bent around a client’s interests. Just our eyes, our attitude, our approach, no permission asked of anyone, and the market as the only judge of whether we saw it right.
That is also why they are free. The moment money is involved, the view gets filtered again. The unfiltered view only exists outside the contract. So giving it away is not generosity. It is the only way to keep the seeing clean.
That is Street Economics® Detections: creating visibility of the opportunities we find —
What began as written detections is now also a set of maps. A corridor, a district, a place, a scene, an economy, each one built as a network and a lineage, from public sources only, so the thing can be seen whole and checked line by line. Some carry a Street Economics detection, some are The Music Cities, and some cross between. The method is the same and so is the standard: every node rests on a public source, every count is computed from the same data file, and nothing is asserted that the evidence does not show.
Each map makes one real thing legible, as a network and a lineage built from public sources. They are grouped by the brand that publishes them. New maps slot in as they release.
The Asian commercial district along 163rd Street, mapped as a network and a lineage: the grocers, kitchens, plazas, civic bodies and events, how it assembled itself with no one’s permission, and what tends to happen after a district like it is seen.
A place and its economy mapped as a network and a lineage, from the railroad to the Transitway, with Hurricane Andrew as the pivot. Many documented destinations, one historic gathering cluster, and the rest standing alone. The evidence behind Detection #3, South Dade: a place to live, not belong, not yet.
Criteria Recording Studios since 1958 and the recording rooms, schools, shops, labels, people and landmark records around it across five jurisdictions, with the documented absence of a live music stage inside the ring. The evidence behind Detection #1, Studios Without Stages.
How attention becomes brand partnerships, owned products, retail shelves, factories, jobs and places across the United States, with the failures mapped at the same standing as the successes.
The bands, musicians, studios, labels, festivals and venues through which death metal began in Tampa Bay and spread across the world, with every Morrisound Recording credit verified album by album.
Bands, musicians, labels, festivals and venues across Japanese heavy music, with the female-led scene mapped member by member.