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Common Place  

Analytique Géospatiale

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About RCP

A Just City Is Possible

Common Place's founding question is "what does it mean to live well in the city together?"

Through data analysis, GIS mapping, and  research services for local governments and organizations,  we are reshaping social and political narratives aimed at challenging the status quo of urban inequality. Most companies see data as currency. We do too. Which is why we make all our research free and public.
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About RCP

RETHINKING GEOGRAPHY & THE CITY

We believe that understanding how cities work, and who they work for, requires asking hard questions. Through custom data analysis, GIS mapping, and policy research, we help local governments and community organizations translate these questions into evidence that supports legislative action, grant applications, and program development to build a more just city.

Our Idea
What We Believe
Housing
Climate Risk
Income & Employment  
Public Health  

Mapping Montréal’s Housing Landscape

Mapping the crisis of affordable rental housing

From rent burden to vacancy, we track how housing costs are reshaping who can afford to live where. Using proprietary datasets, our research reveals which neighborhoods are under pressure, where displacement is accelerating, and what interventions might actually work.

We make this data free and accessible to everyone to empower communities.


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Climate Adaptation and Displacement

Adapting Cities to Rising Seas

Coastal cities face unprecedented flooding, heat, and storm surge risks, but not all neighborhoods face equal exposure. By analyzing climate vulnerability through the lens of housing, infrastructure, and capital investment patterns, we make stochastic futures understandable.


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Jobs and Spending Demographics

Economic Geography of the City

We analyze labor markets, commute patterns, wage gaps, and economic opportunity at the neighborhood scale. Our research connects employment data to economic mobility and spending patterns.


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Social Determinants of Health

Social Epidemiology

We map how health care access, food access, environmental hazards, and socio-economic conditions shape community well-being. From overdose clusters to maternal health disparities, our research identifies where public health interventions are most urgently needed.


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Our Work

Discover some of our latest work on housing, transportation, and more.

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MAPPING AFFORDABILITY

Montréal's Changing Rents

Longitudinal analysis using CMHC data to track rental price growth and affordability patterns across 18 Montréal neighborhoods from 2014-2024. Inflation-adjusted calculations reveal real rent changes and shifting rent burden distributions across the island.

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ANALYZING TRANSIT MODES

Public Transit & Commuters

Spatial analysis using demographic projections to calculate transit dependency rates among employed workers by neighborhood. For workforce planning and policy analysis.

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Custom Web App

Community Data Navigator

Built for a government health department to optimize resource allocation and program targeting. Custom platform synthesizing 70+ socioeconomic, health, and infrastructure variables into weighted neighborhood rankings,

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Service gap analysis

Food Access Dashboard

Built to support regional food banks. We integrated MRI-Simmons psychographic data and spatial analysis to enable a real time location-based referrals platform via SMS while providing tools to identify service gaps and optimize distribution network planning.

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See your city in a new way

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