The USA Will Never Build Walkable Cities

#suburbia #notjustbikes #climatetown
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This was the most ambitious project I've ever embarked on and I hope you like it. My biggest take away from this was that we need to rethink housing and this doesn't just start in legislation. Did you know the Supreme Court made segregation illegal in 1917? Heck it's still around today. While people can definitely argue this ultimately boils down to a class issue I'd say it'd be short sighted not to consider other facts such as race, gender, etc.

Check out my sources here (too long for the description box): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O...

Books I'd definitely recommend

Color of law - Richard Rothstein: details the extent of American segregation

WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time - Jeff Speck: City planner explains walkability and details a practical way on how we actually get there. (don't agree with everything in the book, but still a great place to start when thinking about how to get to realistically peak walkability.)

Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital - Matthew T. Huber: A great educational read that discusses how America's thirst for oil has rooted itself into America's identity and so much more.

How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood - PE Moskowitz: This has a lot of love put into it. Moskowitz travels to cities like New Orleans, San Francisco, Detroit and New York and contextualizes the displacement taking place as a result of gentrification. They interview those feeling the pressure of displacement and those, (some ignorantly), benefiting from the displacement of others. A really great book.

Also things to do other than read is to start engaging in community. Go volunteer somewhere local, go to city council meeting, actually vote for local officials who support affordable housing.

Chapters:
0:00 -We back
2:37 - Let the show begin
6:46 The American Way of Life
11:13 Energy dependency
16:30 -Homeownership as a political tool
19:17 -If New Deal Then Everything
25:59 -Roads, cars, displacement
36:54 New York, New York
39:18 Walkability
44:36 Gentrification
1:10:02 Brooklyn after covid
1:21:40 Cultual appropriation
1:25:20 Infrastructural violence
1:27:27 -Reagan cutting funding
1:28:21-conclusion

Music: Artlist and Jamendo

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