Urban planning & transportation
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‘Our government can’t prevent things that they actually cause’
White men’s roads through Black men’s homes
The racist history of America's interstate highway boom
Interstate highways might be our worst example of systemic racism
How racism shaped interstate highways
Roads to nowhere: how infrastructure built on American inequality
Interstate highways were touted as modern marvels. Racial injustice was part of the plan.
The role of highways in American poverty
How railroads, highways & other manmade lines racially divide America’s cities
How interstate highways gutted communities and reinforced segregation
What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot.
Urban planning as a tool of white supremacy—the other lesson from Minneapolis
The New York highway that racism built
How urban renewal sparked Black Wall Street’s second destruction
Lasting injustices of urban renewal
Gentrification in black and white: the racial impact of public housing demolition in American cities
Gentrifying the city: from racialized neglect to racialized reinvestment
What it looks like to reconnect Black communities torn apart by highways
Designing a more equitable future
Right past wrongs of urban renewal
Redressing widespread 20th-century destruction of Black neighborhoods
Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policies
Reckoning and repair in US cities