This chapter addresses discrimination against people of color, the poor, “unconventional households,”71 and people with disabilities.
Its sad that even if you're white if you have a disability they are still trying (and not failing) at excluding you!
However, people tend to believe that the plan and structures of cities are created for purposes of efficiency or with the goal of furthering the general public interest, and they overlook the ways that design can exclude.62
This is definitely me, I have never looked around for a bench in a park and thought "there is none so homeless people don't lay there".
the absence of sidewalks and crosswalks,
I used to live in a town called Richmond Hill near Savannah and there were little to no sidewalks in this suburb. This was also a town that didn't have a Chickfila or a Walmart and did not want to expand and grow as a community. It was all very exclusive.
“landscape is one of the most overlooked instruments of modern race-making.”67
It is interesting to think that the landscape itself MAKES the races portrait themselves differently. Many people think other people that live in Savannah for example are dangerous and will shoot you but that is a stereotype of Savannah.
opposed efforts to expand MARTA into their neighborhoods for the reason that doing so would give people of color easy access to suburban communities.7
I noticed while riding MARTA this morning, almost all of the ads had either black people on the picture or clearly showed that they were geared towards lower income people. They KNOW who is going to see these ads.
Wealthy, mostly white residents of the northern Atlanta suburbs have vocally opposed efforts to expand MARTA into their neighborhoods for the reason that doing so would give people of color easy access to suburban communities.7
They don't wanna let us in!