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Tag Archives: injustice
America’s longest freeway capping parks
Below are freeway capping projects that incorporate park land or greenspace atop the deck that have taken place or which are proposed in the United States. They are listed by their known or approximate length (~) using maps.google.com. Unfortunately, there … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, architecture, art, bridges, Cars, cities, civics, culture, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, engineering, entertainment, fun, geography, Highway displacement, highways, historic preservation, history, inclusiveness, infrastructure, injustice, land use, landscape architecture, Maps, nature, pictures, placemaking, planning, pollution, product design, racism, recreation, revitalization, social equity, spatial design, Statistics, third places, topography, tourism, trails, transportation, Travel, tunnels, urban design, urban planning, visual pollution, walking
Tagged cities, freeway capping, freeway lids, freeways, fun, geography, history, injustice, Interstate Highways, Interstate injustice, land use, parks, planning, transportation, travel
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The pioneers behind historic Black-owned pharmacies
A quick trip to the drugstore sounds like a typically mundane shopping adventure we all have taken from time to time. Unfortunately, for Black Americans, especially during America’s Jim Crow segregation era, a trip to the pharmacy for prescriptions or … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Africa, business, cities, civics, Civil Rights, civility, commerce, consumerism, culture, demographics, diversity, economic development, education, entrepreneurship, geography, health, Health care, historic preservation, history, humanity, inclusiveness, injustice, land use, North America, pictures, placemaking, planning, politics, racism, Science, shopping, social equity, States, third places, urban planning, Women
Tagged African-Americans, bigotry, business, cities, Civil Rights, drugstores, education, health, health care, health planning, injustice, Jim Crow, medicine, pharmacies, pharmacists, racism, retailing, segregation, soda fountain, Third places
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“The Newspaper Boy” – a helpful remedy when losing hope
Spoiler Alert: While I try not to reveal too much about details contained within the book, there are undoubtedly some aspect of spoilers contained within this post. If you prefer to read the book first without knowing too much about … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, art, book reviews, books, cities, civics, Civil Rights, civility, Communications, culture, diversity, education, entertainment, health, history, human rights, humanity, immigration, inclusiveness, injustice, literature, politics, poverty, racism, Religion, social equity, writing
Tagged Alabama, bigotry, Birmingham, book reviews, books, Chervis Isom, Civil Rights, civility, equity, hate, injustice, Jim Crow, justice, literature, Norwood, racism, segregation, The Newspaper Boy
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Healing Interstate injustice by removing freeways
Back in 2018, I wrote a post about the trend in freeway-capping projects. These efforts are an attempt to partially rectify (or put a bandaid over) the injustices of America’s highway-building mania that took place between the 1940s and 1980s. A … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative transportation, Cars, Cities, civics, Civil Rights, civility, commerce, culture, economic development, economic gardening, environment, geography, health, Highway displacement, history, Housing, inclusiveness, infrastructure, injustice, land use, Maps, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, politics, pollution, racism, revitalization, social equity, spatial design, Statistics, tourism, Trade, traffic, transportation, urban planning, visual pollution
Tagged boulevards, cities, demolition, freeways, highways, immoral highways, inequity, injustice, Interstate injustice, Interstates, replacement
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“Just Mercy” Will Rip Your Heart to Shreds
* A small commission is earned from purchases that are made using this visual link to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. In all my years, I have never read a more disturbing, yet compelling book. … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, art, book reviews, books, charities, civics, Civil Rights, civility, culture, diversity, history, human rights, humanity, inclusiveness, injustice, literature, politics, poverty, reading, social equity, Statistics, writing
Tagged Bryan Stevenson, crime, Equal Justice Initiative, inequality, injustice, justice, law, punishment, reviews
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Interstate Injustice: Plowing Highways Through Minority Neighborhoods – Updated
The list provided at the end of the post is a partial tally of the once vibrant, historically Black and Latino neighborhoods that have been largely decimated by Interstate Highway construction. Much of this community displacement and destruction took place … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, cities, civics, Civil Rights, economic development, environment, geography, health, history, Housing, humanity, infrastructure, land use, Maps, planning, politics, poverty, racism, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, traffic, transportation, urban planning, zoning
Tagged cities, construction, discrimination, injustice, Interstate Highways, poverty, racism, transportation
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Cities in history: review of “Ten Green Bottles”
Vivian Jeanette Kaplan’s book (Ten Green Bottles) about her parent’s harrowing escape from Nazi-controlled Vienna, Austria to Japanese-controlled Shanghai, China is a captivating and disturbing true story of one family’s efforts to escape Nazi aggression. The book primarily covers from the … Continue reading
Posted in art, Asia, bicycling, book reviews, cities, civics, culture, diversity, Europe, history, human rights, poverty, psychology, transportation
Tagged Austria, Axis, book reviews, books, Canada, China, communists, culture, diversity, exodus, facists, family, Germany, history, holocaust, injustice, poverty, religion, Shanghai, Toronto, Vienna, war, World War II
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