Why the Suburbs Are Terrible for Us
It’s Friday and another month has flown by. Below you can find my latest video alongside three quotes and three links I found insightful along the way.
Three Quotes:
“The result of all of this is that the American metropolis is a constantly expanding and morphing racial petroscape, where decisions made to maintain racial inequality and white privilege reinforce carbon intensive forms of urban development and mobility, while delegitimizing anything that would help cities move along a more sustainable path.”
— Robbert Gioelli
“Local codes have ensured that suburban homes with a two-car garage dominate the American landscape, but those rules originally were often directly linked to racial discrimination. Single-family zoning was passed in some cities to ensure racial segregation. The deeds of some houses specified that only white buyers could purchase them.”
— NPR
“Across more than 100 cities, a recent study found, formerly redlined neighborhoods are today 5 degrees hotter in summer, on average, than areas once favored for housing loans, with some cities seeing differences as large as 12 degrees.”
— New York Times
Three Links:
“Pruitt-Igoe in the Suburbs”: Connecting White Flight, Sprawl, and Climate Change in Metropolitan America (Robert R. Gioielli)
How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering (New York Times)
The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry (Climate Town)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie