HUMR 3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cobb County, Georgia, Neoliberalism
27 Nov 2016
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Nelson had to walk a third of a mile to the nearest marked crosswalk. Like ferguson, missouri, the run-down corner of cobb county, georgia, where a. j. Newman was killed is a declining inner suburb. When created in the middle years of the last century, these were places for middle-class white homeowners to get away from urban poverty. When michael brown encountered officer darren wilson on august 9, 2014, his suburban environment disadvantaged him triply. It was(cid:374)(cid:859)t just that he was poo(cid:396) a(cid:374)d (cid:271)la(cid:272)k. like a(cid:395)uel nelso(cid:374), he was usi(cid:374)g his two feet fo(cid:396) transportation in a place designed to be traveled by car. Jaywalking, as peter norton shows in his landmark history fighting traffic, is an invented crime. Industry-funded experts denied that speed was to blame for an epidemic of pedestrian crashes. They designed new roadways with the overriding objective of moving cars faster. Sidewalks disappeared, first on residential streets and then on main roads.
