In Denver, two historically minority neighborhoods were separated by I-70. Over 10 years the highway was lowered and a 4 acre park constructed. Reconnecting the neighborhoods has been a boon to the city in many ways.
In Denver, two historically minority neighborhoods were separated by I-70. Over 10 years the highway was lowered and a 4 acre park constructed. Reconnecting the neighborhoods has been a boon to the city in many ways.
Am reminded that Seattle has a rough history with allowing interstate highways to join and pass through certain neighborhoods, which have high rates of pedestrians being run over.
go Pete!! I love this stuff. It's fascinating American history (to me, who loves the history of american roadways), and it's also STUFF WE NEED TO FIX LIKE RFN.
Something similar happened in Yonkers, NY. The city wouldn't let a person develop a Jewish cemetery on the white side of town, so he made into a middle class black neighborhood. It was not allowed to connect to the adjacent neighborhoods, so there are dead ends that have hedges. It is still like that today. The book Show Me A Hero describes a few of the racist urban design policies that were in the city at the time. The city council chose to go bankrupt rather than integrate their public housing. This didn't happen that long ago.
I love Jones Beach, I have fond memories of going there with my father and Brothers and all of dad's weirdo hippy friends, and the Parkways are lovely, especially without trucks. But boy did he leave a legacy, not to mention the quasi-public MTA, among many other things. I guess Jacobs was a NIMBYer, or a local grassroots activist, which is kinda what you're supposed to do if the giant foot of progress is tryna step on YOU. She was a NIMBYer with the right background, that's for sure. History is complicated though, right?
Jefferson Street here in Nashville has been for decades and remains a center for Black-owned business and black homes. Wanna drive all the way down Jefferson? Yeah, you can't, because a huge swath of it doesn't exist anymore. I-40 rolls right through it.
As one might imagine a lot of this systemic racism is very local and specific. Here is an example of a street used for decades as a deliberate block against black citizens right here in my home town Ferguson, Missouri:
Yes. An IQ drop of 5 or 10 points isn't noticeable in any one person, but looking at averages for groups of people makes it clear. And the impulse control issue is not easy to see, given the environment. "Well, given the circumstances, what would you expect?" But it's quite real.
Also, until recently, poor environments included buildings where lead-based paint was ingested by infants, and if the walls were damaged, all the inhabitants were exposed to asbestos.
In Denver, two historically minority neighborhoods were separated by I-70. Over 10 years the highway was lowered and a 4 acre park constructed. Reconnecting the neighborhoods has been a boon to the city in many ways.
In Denver, two historically minority neighborhoods were separated by I-70. Over 10 years the highway was lowered and a 4 acre park constructed. Reconnecting the neighborhoods has been a boon to the city in many ways.
Am reminded that Seattle has a rough history with allowing interstate highways to join and pass through certain neighborhoods, which have high rates of pedestrians being run over.
go Pete!! I love this stuff. It's fascinating American history (to me, who loves the history of american roadways), and it's also STUFF WE NEED TO FIX LIKE RFN.
Warcriminal Bush.
I wish someone would ask one of these CRT crazies how long CRT has been taught in the schools.
I am hopeful that the talk to cap it will become a reality. The Major Deegan also isolates a neighborhood in the Bronx.
MFer tried to do the same thing right through Greenwich Village.
Something similar happened in Yonkers, NY. The city wouldn't let a person develop a Jewish cemetery on the white side of town, so he made into a middle class black neighborhood. It was not allowed to connect to the adjacent neighborhoods, so there are dead ends that have hedges. It is still like that today. The book Show Me A Hero describes a few of the racist urban design policies that were in the city at the time. The city council chose to go bankrupt rather than integrate their public housing. This didn't happen that long ago.
There is a current line of thought that Robert Moses did create some positive things and that Jane Jacobs was a NIMBYer.
I love Jones Beach, I have fond memories of going there with my father and Brothers and all of dad's weirdo hippy friends, and the Parkways are lovely, especially without trucks. But boy did he leave a legacy, not to mention the quasi-public MTA, among many other things. I guess Jacobs was a NIMBYer, or a local grassroots activist, which is kinda what you're supposed to do if the giant foot of progress is tryna step on YOU. She was a NIMBYer with the right background, that's for sure. History is complicated though, right?
Jefferson Street here in Nashville has been for decades and remains a center for Black-owned business and black homes. Wanna drive all the way down Jefferson? Yeah, you can't, because a huge swath of it doesn't exist anymore. I-40 rolls right through it.
^^^THIS^^^
As one might imagine a lot of this systemic racism is very local and specific. Here is an example of a street used for decades as a deliberate block against black citizens right here in my home town Ferguson, Missouri:
Where the Pavement Ends directed by Jane Gillooly
https://worldchannel.org/ep...
Well, how do you expect these people to get anything done if they're not outraged?
Yes. An IQ drop of 5 or 10 points isn't noticeable in any one person, but looking at averages for groups of people makes it clear. And the impulse control issue is not easy to see, given the environment. "Well, given the circumstances, what would you expect?" But it's quite real.
Also, until recently, poor environments included buildings where lead-based paint was ingested by infants, and if the walls were damaged, all the inhabitants were exposed to asbestos.