When over 3,000 people were moved from the Heygate Estate in South East London to make way for regeneration, housing campaigners regarded it as the latest example of a pocket of a major city being gentrified. This figure is among the statistics that designer Herwig Scherabon has visualised in attempting to give meaning to numbers which can often feel vague and difficult to grasp.

The results are collected in his book The Altas of Gentrification.

The Atlas of Gentrification by Herwig Scherabon Show all 6 1 /6 The Atlas of Gentrification by Herwig Scherabon The Atlas of Gentrification by Herwig Scherabon The Atlas of Gentrification by Herwig Scherabon San Francisco Eviction Notices since 1997 The data includes eviction notices filed with the San Francisco Rent Board. The right half of the image shows all eviction notices sorted by time, beginning January 1997. The left half of the image shows the same data sorted by eviction cause. Source: 2015 Annual Eviction Report The Atlas of Gentrification by Herwig Scherabon London – Rent Price This visualisation shows London’s rent price with lower rents in the east and the highest values in the center, west and north. The graphic is a little nod to Peter Saville's Joy Division cover.Source: LSOA Atlas by Greater London Authority The Atlas of Gentrification by Herwig Scherabon Los Angeles Correlations Th top graph shows a correlation between house price and employment in entertainment. The bottom graph shows an inverse correlation between rent price index and gang membership throughout time. Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, LAPD The Atlas of Gentrification by Herwig Scherabon Heygate/London Regeneration & Displacement Map a displacement map that shows where the former tenants of the estate have been moved to. The data was gathered by the Heygate community. The Atlas of Gentrification by Herwig Scherabon Heygate/London Regeneration & Displacement Map The former Heygate Estate was demolished in 2014. The site is now known as Elephant Park, where expensive homes will be put on the market in 2017. Image 4 is a comparison of the situation before and after the demolition on three axises. It is shows the multi-faceted, mostly negative effects of the regeneration. Source: Foxtons, Heygate was Home.

His bold work, often using only one or two colours, showcase data including reasons for eviction notices in San Francisco (including tenants being a "nuisance" or "failing to sign release renewal") and an undulating graph on the London housing crisis inspired by 1970s post-punk band Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures.

“I found the current discussion about gentrification quite superficial, since it often ends with blaming hipsters for moving to another neighbourhood,” he told The Independent.

Instead, he wanted to draw attention to the political and economic drive behind generating revenue for certain interest groups through gentrification and the negative impact it has on those who are displaced.

“Showing the urban footprint of gentrification through data visualisation and city maps helps to understand the mechanism behind such a complicated problem.”

He hopes that his work will highlight issues such as income inequality, racial segregation and evictions in hot-spots of London, and the US cities of Los Angeles, Boston, and San Francisco.

“We live in a time of sensory overload, where we are surrounded by a lot of information that is sometimes false or simply not fact-checked," he aruged, adding: "Information design is a very slow process, but in a way it acts as an antidote against a post-truth culture.”