This is a fascinating history about the federal process of “red lining” neighborhoods for urban planning at a massive level. At the beginning of U.S. car culture and the federal highway construction of the 1950s, minority (black) neighborhoods in urban areas were systematically devastated and divided for the construction of massive walls and buttresses cutting off communities and killing local concentrations of independent neighborhoods and economies. Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, and Jackson Ward, Virginia are dead testaments to the horrific impact of concrete assassins on community culture and local sovereignty. A closer examination of U.S. history shows the repetitive use of walls, impediments, and divisions as the girding factors keeping the ‘have nots’ away from the ‘haves’.
On a related note, I’m hearing fascinating things about the Black Panther movie and the images of a strong and robust African culture depicted in the movie … one only needs to look at the images of crumbled shells of buildings, roads, and schools in urban neighborhoods to understand the comprehensive devastation and historical fingerprints of internal colonialism in the forming and continued functioning of the Great American Schism.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/21/roads-nowhere-infrastructure-american-inequality
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I miss those days in america..Almost every cross roads in america are like these.By the way in black and white it looks more beautiful :)
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and every town as a wal-mart, a dollar general, and a cash loan store // that is our new america the beautiful
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Yes walmrt , CVS pharmacy ,walgreen i miss those days :(
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Sadly, evidence of this is everywhere. Talking around automotive lines, GM essentially devistated the city of Flint by pulling out all their operations and closing plants.
Flint wasn’t a “haves” city.
They only recently have started to be bought up and repouposed as classrooms, labs, and areas for student housing. Kettering University (where I earned my engineering degree) has been successful enough to have the finances and connections to acquire these properties and turn them around.
The university is literally turning around the inner city of Flint, one piece at a time.
Thought provoking post, thanks.
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... Michael Moore
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Exactly. Roger & Me.
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Modern urbanism, especially the one in America is killing societies everywhere it's emulated. The wide-as-a-football-field roads, the manicured lawns, acres of land devoted to free parking, grid layout of cities just destroy any form of social interaction and are extremely costly to a tax payer. I'll be doing a post on this next week, you can check that out if you're interested.
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I'll be there... thanks for expanding on these ideas.
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