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The Cities: I could have sworn we had this thread but I guess not
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Russell Jaslow
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I have that book. Actually, didn't read the whole thing. But it's essentially a treatise on why the NYC transportation system is fucked up. And how Robert Moses became the most powerful figure in NYC. He even had his own "army," the Transit Police, who answered to him and him only.
Kepler
I loafe and invite my soul
The Moses episode of the Ken Burns series on NYC is harrowing.
"Urban renewal" was code for "get rid of the n*ggers."
Project 1955.
aparch
Acetaminamerican
Story across the entire country. The interstate highway system is a great thing, but extending it into and/or cutting through existing metropolitan areas did two things: made it easier for the white families to "escape" the city and live the idyllic suburban life, and making that possible by cutting through the "undesired" neighborhoods displacing longstanding neighborhoods forcing them outside the city center.
And then the push for car-centric living also gave a stigma to public transportation in that "only the poors use that."
I was floored on a City of Chicago project where the digital basemap we were using was a scanned copy of the fire insurance maps from the 50s and 60s with the interstates drawn on top of the original streets and property plots. So much commercial and residential land was considered "undesirable" to allow the expressways through.
And then the push for car-centric living also gave a stigma to public transportation in that "only the poors use that."
I was floored on a City of Chicago project where the digital basemap we were using was a scanned copy of the fire insurance maps from the 50s and 60s with the interstates drawn on top of the original streets and property plots. So much commercial and residential land was considered "undesirable" to allow the expressways through.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Proud Statist
I-375 on the northeast side of downtown Detroit is a study in exactly how a thriving black neighborhood was demolished by creating a short freeway business spur.
state of hockey
He fixes the cable?
94 did it to both MPLS and St. Paul.