On: Urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build

[samcheng]

The Chinese neighborhood in Seattle was mostly leveled by a freeway interchange; this pattern is not as rare as you suggest. https://crosscut.com/opinion/2021/04/legacy-racism-built-nor...

In San Francisco, the "redevelopment" of the Western Addition is a famous example of a public project that targeted certain minorities. The city basically took a wrecking ball to the heart of the black community in San Francisco, and it never really recovered afterwards. https://www.sfpublicpress.org/fillmore-revisited-how-redevel...

[throwanem → samcheng]

Baltimore's 'Highway to Nowhere' is another good example. https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/businessdevelopmen...

[glial → throwanem]

So is St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondo_neighborhood#Routing_of_...