If you wanna get urban blackpilled check out this map of metro Atlanta's streetcar network from 1940: https://i.redd.it/0dp9u5lth2931.png
This is what they took away from us so they could build six lane highways with bus stops on either side with no crosswalks inbetween. The sprawl also exacerbates the urban heat island effect which causes area's near/on concrete and impermeable surfaces to be up to 12 degrees F hotter than surroudning areas. What's even more fucked is that formerly redlined neighborhoods are far more likely to be located in urban heat islands. Greenspace is a commodity sold as being public, sustainable, climate-friendly, etc, but is used as an investment vehicle and amenity to the upper classes. This is adding to many of Atlanta's existing segregation issues. In my Atlanta zip code the northern area is far wealthier and whiter than the southern area, which is predominately low-income and black (but rapidly gentrifying). Just within this zip code there is a life expectancy gap of 12 years between these two areas.
I've lived in Atlanta most of my life and it is an incredible, beautiful city in spite of its history of autocentric, suburban-centric racism and capitalism. Unfortunately because of that it's also a case study of how shitty urban planning is literal violence on the people who can't afford to access basic services (transportation, grocery stores, greenspaces, clean air and water, jobs, walkability, safety, etc) . The politicians and paper-pushers who facilitate this have far more death and misery on their hands than any serial killers. they'd be in the gulags if there was any justice.
If you wanna get urban blackpilled check out this map of metro Atlanta's streetcar network from 1940: https://i.redd.it/0dp9u5lth2931.png
This is what they took away from us so they could build six lane highways with bus stops on either side with no crosswalks inbetween. The sprawl also exacerbates the urban heat island effect which causes area's near/on concrete and impermeable surfaces to be up to 12 degrees F hotter than surroudning areas. What's even more fucked is that formerly redlined neighborhoods are far more likely to be located in urban heat islands. Greenspace is a commodity sold as being public, sustainable, climate-friendly, etc, but is used as an investment vehicle and amenity to the upper classes. This is adding to many of Atlanta's existing segregation issues. In my Atlanta zip code the northern area is far wealthier and whiter than the southern area, which is predominately low-income and black (but rapidly gentrifying). Just within this zip code there is a life expectancy gap of 12 years between these two areas.
I've lived in Atlanta most of my life and it is an incredible, beautiful city in spite of its history of autocentric, suburban-centric racism and capitalism. Unfortunately because of that it's also a case study of how shitty urban planning is literal violence on the people who can't afford to access basic services (transportation, grocery stores, greenspaces, clean air and water, jobs, walkability, safety, etc) . The politicians and paper-pushers who facilitate this have far more death and misery on their hands than any serial killers. they'd be in the gulags if there was any justice.