There’s a lot of interesting history in the ways that urban planning and infrastructure development have been used to reinforce racism. Robert Moses, the guy who designed the roadways in New York City, made the bridges on the Long Island Parkway too low for the city busses at the time to go under, because he wanted to prevent the type of people who ride buses (wink, nudge) from getting to the wealthy white beachfront properties he was developing. He did a lot of other stuff like that to make it so that, in the most literal sense possible, the city was physically hostile to black people
That article, The lingering effects of NYC’s racist city planning, is GREAT, full of concrete current examples from 10 American cities. A must read.
FUCK ROBERT MOSES, I HOPE HE’S STEPPING ON LEGOS IN HELL.
