In my reading, I could make a link between how the production of place through race is arguably emblematic of how non-white populations become symbolic of 'pollution'/'toxicity' thereby diminishing the liveability of a place. A comparative analysis of marketing of cities and demographics can contribute to determing the racialisation of that liveability placemaking discourse. I am not really sure how the text about climate action connects in. I find the ties bewteen the different elements in the image somewhat vague. Or I am simply missing something. Sorry.
I would suggest working on a way to draw into the image a trigger for generating a reflection about toxicity and how some communities are constructed as 'toxic communities' or populations as 'pollutants'. Dorceta Taylor's work might be worth using as a source of inspiration? Or Mary Douglas's work. I don't mean to be negative but I connections vague here.
The image is a collected one (advertisement) of a city combined a graph prepared to illustrate the racial demographics of a city. The scale of attention is broad, but I cannot help feeling that it is so broad the ties to toxicity become vague. Nonetheless, the composition does provide an opportunity to think about how race, urban placemaking, and a liveability discourse are constructed. So, the comparative nature of the image is generative, so the composition works. Unfortunately, I had trouble finding any representational, compositional, aesthetic impetus that would produce reflection about toxicity and pollution.
To be honest, I struggled with the caption. It is short and descriptive. While I previously mention relationships between populations being classified as 'pollutants' thereby there marginalisation framing the 'liveability' of a city I feel like I am imposing a reading of the image and caption . The caption could really do with some reflexive writing to link it to discussions/debates about population, racialised liveability measurements, urban placemaking, pollution, and toxicity. While the image has text about climate action I cannot it is difficult to connect up with the rest of the image.
This image draws attention to how a discourse of how urban placemaking (and attendant marketing) is bound up with a politics of race. The image directly represents how a largely white population will be discursively linked to "best places to live". The production of place through race is arguably emblematic of how non-white populations become symbolic of 'pollution' thereby associated with the 'diminishing' of the liveability of a place. Such populations become, as Mary Douglas puts it, constructed as "matter out of place."