Central Dallas, vor und nach dem öffentlich finanzierten Autobahnbau, ein Prozess, der in den 1950er und 1980er Jahren Tausende in den überwiegend schwarzen und lateinamerikanischen Vierteln rund um die Innenstadt vertrieben hat. Weitere Informationen, Karten und historische Fotos/Pläne unter: https://www.segregationbydesign.com/dallas/highway-planning-and-construction
Von TheSandPeople
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And people wanted this?
Huge improvement s/
Aw our economy got so much stronger, boo i hate cars boo
Me in cities skylines solving my traffic problems (it didn’t work)
Dallas before and after becoming civilized.
Though they’re not fully civilized yet- I still see non-automobile related buildings.
Basically killed the whole city
What’s sad….. Is that’s reflective of every major city in our country.
What happened to all of these displaced people? Was it as simple as “we’re tearing down your house. Good luck!”
Was there any sort of relocation assistance or acknowledgement of the fact that all these people’s homes were just getting taken away from them without their consent?
They destroyed the entire city so people could drive past it faster
2002? They need to do another comparison from 2002 to 2025. They’re everywhere
Do you think proposed projects of this scale have an effect on housing prices? Does the impact map better to race or socioeconomic status?
Race isn’t always the most insightful lens to view things.
Great visualization. Why do I feel like those occasional areas that had 80% white were the ones with the most public outcry and pushback? Just a guess I could be totally wrong for this case
Oh do the Cotton Bowl and Texas state fair grounds next
(Hint: they used eminent domain to destroy a black neighborhood)
What?! Texas being blatantly racist!? No… no way… they would never…!
(This is sarcasm)
It’s pretty on par with what Oklahoma having the Tulsa massacre and not teaching about it at all. I learned about it as an adult even though i grew up 40 minutes away from it.
I’m in Detroit temporarily for work. It’s ground zero for this kind of “planning.” And it’s really strangling the city. Everyone’s talking about how the city is “coming back,” (kindly, gentrifying) but realistically every cool neighborhood can only exist for about 5 blocks in any direction before it runs into massive highways and the feeder roads around it. And the infrastructural costs to put cars on and off the highways here are astronomical. It’s a medium city with a poorly-planned big city’s road surface area, which they have to clean, plow, pave, and police. You have to cross the whole city to get between two different businesses you might want to visit. People will get in their cars to travel 4 blocks.
Now Detroit has a particular history with depopulation, but these problems will weigh really heavily on cities like Dallas which are growing quickly and only investing in highways for infrastructure. That stuff is going to be a lot harder to pay for and keep up when the city inevitably stops booming and settles into more stable population trends.
I love these visiuals. I find them super powerful and informative. The most interesting part to me isn’t comparing the exact footprint of the highway before and after, but seeing how far reaching the effects are. Many blocks outside of the highway’s direct footprint, you still see entire neigborhoods of dense housing slowly dissapearing in favor of empty lots, parking structures, warehouses, etc. Highways displace a lot more than it appears on the surface.
I’ve driven in every single state with the exception of Alaska and Hawaii. The Dallas/Fortworth area is by far the worst traffic I’ve ever experienced.
that’s some r/urbanhell material…
I can’t speak for how things were done in 1960. But currently these types of projects are planned entirely around traffic impact effectiveness, construction feasibility and cost. Mostly cost.
It ends up being that poor neighborhoods get destroyed because they’re cheaper to buy vs specifically targeting black neighborhoods. Now if you dig into why the black neighborhoods are historically more poor, there’s your racism smoking gun. But the design engineers aren’t sitting around with black neighborhoods circled on a map playing connect the dots to see how much can be destroyed.
This almost happened in Amsterdam too.
America wasn’t built for the car, it was bulldozed for it.
Texas cities are absolute shitholes
This is the plot for Roger Rabbit