In the 80s and 90s, St. Louis City bought out most of the homes in Kinloch, with the threat of eminent domain lingering over their heads.
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black
The displaced residents spread out into the county. In particular, most of the black residents of Ferguson, MO moved there from Kinloch.
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Previously, Ferguson was a relatively well-off white community clustered around a world-famous golf course.
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That's how a white government and a white police force ended up looming over Ferguson's solidly black neighborhoods.
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(In the end, 9/11 happened, and plans to expand Lambert were significantly scaled back. Kinloch never recovered; it has ~300 people now.)
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Modernist architecture and Minoru Yamasaki are a large part of what put Mike Brown in the sights of a trigger-happy cop.
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Today, Kinloch is a ruin. Pruitt-Igoe was demolished in stages in 72-76; it survives now only as ubiquitous stock footage.
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(If you've ever seen filler footage of a building collapsing, there's good odds it was part of Pruitt-Igoe.)
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Racism and planes and Modernist architecture.
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I hope that's interesting or educational for someone who wanted to know St. Louis's history and how Ferguson came to be.
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@a_man_in_black I appreciated the read
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