Tag: One Region Forward
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Triptych Tuesday: A Legacy of Inequitable Infrastructure
If the people centered-transportation movement can become a champion for racial and economic equity, it will play a direct an important counter-point to 20th century infrastructure decisions. A major feature in Slate last month, the past and present of auto-centric infrastructure pockmarks nearly all U.S. cities with the brunt of the externalized consequences being shouldered […]
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A Legacy of Segregation and Discrimination: Redlining
…the housing sector is a prime example of the confluence of influences, often working together, to tilt the playing field away from communities of color. In Tuesday’s post, we alluded to the multiple institutions, agencies and individual actors that contributed to the development of racial and geographic segregation and discrimination in the Buffalo Niagara region. […]
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Separate and Unequal in Buffalo Niagara
“The consequences of racial and ethnic segregation and discrimination directly impact individuals, neighborhoods and the region as a whole.” In the 120 years since the case of Plessy v. Ferguson — which established the doctrine of separate but equal — morality, experience and, eventually, the law have proven time and again that separate can never […]