- Aug 2023
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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the Auto industry built for us and what's most Insidious is the financials behind all of this
- for: adjacency - urban decay, suburbs, history- suburbs, history - car culture, urban decay - economics
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paraphrase
- as the suburbs expanded they need more and more roads highways Bridges infrastructure to stay afloat
- but because the nature of the suburb is spread out single-family housing as opposed to the densely packed City Apartment dwelling the suburbs have too few people to be able to fund this infrastructure
- subsequently, they so they have to keep expanding in order to fund themselves and even then they still can't fund themselves
- so they often rely on tax dollars from City dwellers to subsidize their Suburban excesses
- who lives in the cities because of white flight ?... people of color
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when it comes to housing, people of color have been screwed over in literally every way in imaginable
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so we have this self-perpetuating cycle
- the growth of suburbs leads to more suburban sprawl
- this increases the need for cars
- this leads to the building of more highways and Roads
- this leads to not enough income to pay for the suburbs
- this leads to black and brown communities being forced to subsidize Suburban Lifestyles at the expense of the beautification of their own communities leading to the degradation of inner city neighborhoods
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Auto industry actively demonized pedestrians making fun of pedestrian victims of auto accidents and coining the term jaywalker from the term J used in the late 1800s to mean worthless 00:10:26 fourth rate a hick or a dope and walking in the suburbs is actively discouraged through City planning
- for: history - suburbs, history - car culture
- etymology
- jaywalking
- invented by the auto industry to discourage waling in the suburbs. A "Jay" was a derogatory term in the 1800s that meant "worthless"
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Lots but the people living in the suburbs continued to work and commute in the cities what's the solution High-Speed Rail and Incredibly 00:08:08 efficient mass transit no dummy cars obviously but it wasn't obvious the obsession with and Reliance on cars that seems uniquely American was manufactured as not a symptom but a feature of the 00:08:20 suburbs
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- With so many people living in the suburbs, there was a new transportation problem as these people had to travel to the city centers to work.
- High speed rail and mass transit lost out over big oil and the auto industry lobby, and this loss resulted in an auto-centric design that shaped not only the American landscape, but the entire world
- The 1956 federal aid highway act created a national highway system, but also provided positive feedback to increase suburban development
- highway construction disproportionately affected minority communities
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the GI Bill provided a range of benefits to returning World War II veterans including low-cost mortgages job training and college tuition the implementation of these benefits was not Equitable across racial lines though the 00:04:36 legislation itself didn't explicitly differentiate benefits based on race in practice the distribution of its benefits was largely influenced by social and institutional racism the GI Bill worked in tandem with existing racially discriminating housing and 00:04:48 lending practices such as redlining and restrictive covenants which effectively excluded black veterans from enjoying the same opportunities for homeownership as their white counterparts redlining was a discriminatory practice where 00:05:00 lenders would designate neighborhoods with a high percentage of black people as high risk areas for mortgage lending these areas were often outlined in red on maps used by Banks and other lending institutions hence the term redlining 00:05:13 this led to a systemic denial of Home Loans or Insurance to People based on the racial or ethnic composition of their neighborhoods
- for: history - suburbs, GI Bill, racial discrimination, structural racism, institutional racism, racial discrimination
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- The GI Bill institutionally and structurally discriminated against people of color and played a major role in how suburbs expansion was racially discriminatory against people of color
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- for: town planning, zoning, uglification, history - car culture, big oil - lobby, history - suburbs
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- history - suburbs
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- history - car culture
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- institutional racism
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- racial discrimination
- urban decay - economics
- uglification
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- structural racism
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- Sep 2022
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One reason for this is that poverty is not something that people wish to ac-knowledge or draw attention to. Rather, it is something that individuals andfamilies would like to go away. As a result, many Americans attempt to concealtheir economic difficulties as much as possible.22 This often involves keeping upappearances and trying to maintain a “normal” lifestyle. Such poverty downthe block may at first appear invisible. Nevertheless, the reach of poverty iswidespread, touching nearly all communities across America.
Middle Americans, and particularly those in suburbia and rural parts of America that account for the majority of poverty in the country, tend to make their poverty invisible because of the toxic effects of extreme capitalism and keeping up appearances.
Has this effect risen with the rise of social media platforms like Instagram and the idea of "living one's best life"? How about the social effects of television with shows like "Keeping up with the Kardashians" which encourage conspicuous consumption?
More interesting is the fact that most of these suburban and rural poverty stricken portions of the country are in predominantly Republican held strongholds.
Is there a feedback mechanism that is not only hollowing these areas out, but keeping them in poverty?
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- Jun 2020
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foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com
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amymackinnon2. ‘Don’t Touch Your Face: Our Cities May Never Be the Same Again’. Foreign Policy (blog). Accessed 3 June 2020. https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/dont-touch-your-face-coronavirus-podcast/post-coronavirus-our-cities-may-never-same-again/.
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- Oct 2015
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cms.whittier.edu cms.whittier.edu
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I want to point to the way in which domesticity has been organized on military lines through the institution of the suburb and other normalizing spaces to enforce a particular notion of domestic normalcy which at the same time very often leads to everyday violence
Okay, I get the idea behind the institution of the suburb and how government is "normalizing" spaces to push for a specific idea or vision of well-behaved and orderly citizens.. But how does this lead to everyday violence? Makes me think of "The Purge" movies... Creepy..?
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