📢 New preprint: Urban highways are barriers to social ties: arxiv.org/abs/2404.11596

We overlay the highway network with a massive, geolocated online social network, and measure how social ties are impacted by highway segments in 50 US cities.
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Rep. Seth Moulton Canada Adam here... this is actually a map I made for a class at Columbia GSAPP. Here is an updated version. This is not supposed to be a realistic proposal, but just to get people thinking about the possibilities of HSR.

🔵 youtube.com/watch?v=jENfZQ… «This project reveals, that government-led segregation is not history.» is our #Takeaway from Adam Segregation_by_Design.

#ODAD26 #OnDataAndDesign #onlineevent
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People really have no understanding of how this country works. The interstates were built by destroying Black communities (esp. in New Orleans) or specifically designed to keep public transit away from the suburbs so white people would not have to see or be around Black people

Construction of I-35 through Austin, TX destroyed Black neighborhoods and divided the city. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/e5T-jnVR6Fw

This video is inspired by the amazing work of Segregation_by_Design and Smart Growth America

Video by Reconnect Austin

People rave about European cities

But this is an American City c. 1900

What city is it?

Everybody knows that rent represents a transfer of wealth that disproportionately benefits whiter, richer people.

The same is true for neighborhoods– flows of rent between neighborhoods disproportionately originate in lower income, less white places and flow to rich white ones.

In the NYC region, Housing unit growth has been strong between 1940 and 2019 in most of the city + the NJ waterfront—unsurprising given New York's resilience over the past few decades.

The number of units has declined notably in parts of the South Bronx, Brownsville, & Newark.

Creating the Inner Loop devastated, even destroyed predominantly Black and Brown neighborhoods. Filling in the Inner Loop North is aimed at 'bringing that heart and soul back to this community.' whec.com/top-news/news1…

Had a great time speaking with News10NBC about the Inner Loop Removal project, a huge step towards reconnecting the communities in Rochester which were divided by highway construction—and an example other cities can follow. Check it out tonight at 5pm EST!

Watch --->>>
This video shows how the Inner Loop tore through neighborhoods, parks, churches and businesses starting in 1951.
Produced by Segregation_by_Design and you'll meet Adam Paul Susaneck tonight on News10NBC at 5.
This is what filling in the Loop is designed to repair.

Happy Holidays American Freedmen!! Have you seen this classic American Christmas film titled “A Dream For Christmas”? Its a 1973 film about an African American family from Arkansas that is displaced by the freeway that was built through their town.

“We had the ‘big red’ that would go out to Pasadena, big red to San Pedro, big red to Long Beach,” remembers famed saxophonist Big Jay McNeely (1927-2018). “They ran so fast, it didn’t take you any time to get there.”

More on LA transit history: segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/tr…

Sugar Hill, formerly the wealthiest Black neighborhood in Los Angeles, was completely leveled for construction of the Santa Monica Freeway, I-10.
youtu.be/2yjl9EjSoso?si…

Construction of the 10 cut the Pico District in half in the 1960s, displacing over 600 families—nearly all of them Black. In the decade prior, Santa Monica had displaced hundreds more when it demolished the entirety of the nearby Belmar Triangle. More at: segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sa…

Segregation_by_Design Texas Society of Architects You might be interested this essay about 'Flipping Boy' by Leah Binkovitz.

houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outloo…