Nine provocative articles on race, equity, and urbanism

[Metro Jacksonville]

Nine provocative articles on race, equity, and urbanism





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[NIMBY]

I enjoyed the historical rundown in "The Role of Highways in American Poverty."  The abuse of eminent domain and (small d) democratically approved institutional racism is appalling.  However, I find one passage revealing, when she gets to the solutions:

"What does work, though, is bringing cities together so that poverty isn't so concentrated, so that the rich can't just leave or wall themselves off from the poor, so that the poor aren't trapped in areas of concentrated poverty—what people used to call slums."

That's positively Trumpian in its authoritarianism.  It's also delusional to think the wealthy won't find a way to separate themselves from the commoners.