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Ground Truth
A device that attaches to any Citi Bike and adjusts the bike's pedal resistance based on hyperlocal affordability data.
Active
New York City
Ground Truth is a device that attaches to any Citi Bike. It uses GPS to look up corresponding hyperlocal rent burden data to change the pedal resistance. As a rider moves through areas where housing costs consume a greater share of residents' incomes, the bike's resistance increases. The project translates an economic abstraction into a direct, physical experience. Rather than asking people to interpret inequality through a heat map, chart, or census statistic, it asks them to encounter the underlying data through their own effort and movement.
- Org. type
- Grassroots / Indie project
- Project type
- Tool or platform, Resource
- Country
- United States of America 🇺🇸
- Language(s)
- English
- Categories
- Artistic interventions, Civic data, Civic maps, Data visualization, Mapping, The Tech
- Added
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14T07:12:39.000Z
Additional details
- Formats
- place-based
- Number of integrations
- 0
- Activity status
- Active
- Sustainable Development Goals
- 11. Sustainable cities and communities
- Issues addressed
- housing
- Geographic focus
- New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
- Geographic focus — country
- United States of America 🇺🇸
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