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This is an interesting take on the elevated highways.
I've always heard it described as White suburban commuters having no respect for the now Black neighborhoods they fled decades earlier.
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 @ryanrandall @zagone @sidereal @PedestrianError @Theblueone @jonny It's struck me how most workplaces I've been in are designed as fortresses, with walls and controlled points of entry with guards. And somewhere I read an article about how the "corporate campus" was designed to isolate workers, so they don't leave the work site even for meals.  @foolishowl @ryanrandall @zagone @PedestrianError @Theblueone @jonny This is one reason why workplace mapping is an important part of union organizing @sidereal @ryanrandall @zagone @PedestrianError @Theblueone @jonny I've usually kept an eye out for where people could reach workers with leaflets and such outside the gaze of corporate security. The trick to organizing workers inside is to have a means of communication outside.  @foolishowl @ryanrandall @zagone @sidereal @PedestrianError @Theblueone @jonny |
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It's been more than a decade since I've relevant stuff by folks like Mike Davis, Edward Soja, or Samuel Delany, but there's almost certainly multiple people who've written about the material & planning histories of this part of the built environment.
You definitely might look to things on Robert Moses's changes to NYC transportation as a start: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/05/887386869/how-transportation-racism-shaped-america
Folks like Nick Mitchell and others have also done a lot to connect how campuses & suburbs & prisons work as "warehousing" of people treated as surplus.
Here's a conference panel I desperately tried to type notes on: https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/our-conference-notes/2015-05-21-cultural-studies-association-2015-opening-plenary-panel/
I've also heard good arguments—again, can't remember exactly from where—that whiteness was reinforced/encouraged by the production of suburbs. Making people isolated & structurally encouraging housing to be treated as an investment reduces social ties and makes it harder to organize unions or other working political groups.
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It's been more than a decade since I've relevant stuff by folks like Mike Davis, Edward Soja, or Samuel Delany, but there's almost certainly multiple people who've written about the material & planning histories of this part of the built environment.