Posts tagged Demographics
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Homes in black neighborhoods are vastly undervalued, costing black homeowners billions
In the DC Metro area, the average cost of a home in a majority-black neighborhood is $48,490 less expensive than a comparable home in a neighborhood with few to no black residents, according to a recent report from the Brookings Institute. Keep reading…
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How accessible is Metro anyway?
Much more needs to be done to make local rail and bus systems truly accessible. For example, Metro’s 7000-series trains still have a dangerous gap between the cars that a blind man fell through in 2016, and more than half of local bus stops aren’t reachable to people using wheelchairs. Keep reading…
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These maps show how public housing was manipulated to segregate DC
Since it was created for white families during WWII, public housing has been used as a tool to segregate cities, and whites in power continued to use it for this purpose as more black residents moved in over the following decades. A map project from the historians at PrologueDC illustrates the ways public housing has been manipulated. Keep reading…
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How segregation in DC shifts from day to night
Many people continue to live in much more racially-segregated areas than where they work. Keep reading…
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How the jet, the mall, and the mainframe computer created Tysons
Looking out a Silver Line Metro window on the way into Tysons feels like looking into the future — albeit a car-dominated one. Glass and steel buildings seem to race each other towards the sky. Ribbons of highways swirl around and through the city, which rises from 2,100 acres plopped between DC and Dulles Airport. As big as it looks now, it’s only the beginning. Keep reading…
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National links: Sidewalks — your cracks are showing
The high cost of bad sidewalks. Wall Street wants to invest in rail service. Miami looks to update its zoning codes, and more in this week’s National links. Keep reading…
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Homes in black communities are vastly undervalued, costing black homeowners billions
In the DC Metro area, the average cost of a home in a majority-black neighborhood is $48,490 less expensive than a comparable home in a neighborhood with few to no black residents, according to a report from the Brookings Institute. Keep reading…
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One man zoned huge swaths of the DC region for sprawl, cars, and exclusion
Harland Bartholomew’s legacy demonstrates with particular clarity that planning is never truly neutral; value judgments are always embedded in the objectives engineers set for themselves. Keep reading…
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US cities were segregated by design. This video shows how we’re still affected.
Generations of housing segregation in the United States has had lasting effects on social issues such as crime, education, achievement, and the environment. Keep reading…
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City planners need to talk about race. The lives of our residents depend on it.
Historic discriminatory urban design practices, such as redlining and restrictive zoning, continue to degrade the health of communities of color. In order to build more equitable communities, planners must better understand and acknowledge this legacy of discrimination — and actively work to undo its persisting effects. Keep reading…