PP&D 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Urban Renewal

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Planning, Policy, and Design
• Course: PP&D 4
• Professor: Walter Nicholls

Document Summary

The making of ferguson: public policies at the root of its troubles. August 2014: a black unarmed teenager named michael brown was shot by a ferguson, Racially segregated, high poverty, unemployment, poor student achievement, oppressive policing, abandoned homes, community powerlessness. White people abandoned towns when african americans arrived to escape poor schools in the city. African americans did not move to suburbs because prejudice real estate agents steered them away from predominantly white suburbs. St. louis= zoning rules classified white neighborhoods as residential and black neighborhoods as commercial or industrial. Segregated public housing projects that replaced integrated low income areas. Federal subsidies for suburban development conditioned on african american exclusion. Federal and local requirements for, and enforcement of property to or occupancy by african americans. Tax favoritism for private institutions that practiced segregation. Municipal boundary lines designed to separate black neighborhoods from white ones and to deny necessary services to the former.