I wanna talk a sec about public transit and Elon Musk in a serious sort of way not sarcastically.
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He could have run the Cross Bronx through East Tremont along Crotana Park, but chose instead to run it through a Jewish neighborhood.
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1500+ people were displaced and lost their homes because of this.
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He built playgrounds in rich neighborhoods, but only one in Harlem. The ironwork on the fence was adorned with monkeyspic.twitter.com/txIC7ksvcE
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Robert Moses weaponized Civil Engineering and Urban Planning to suppress marginalized communities. Engineering is always political.
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Elon Musk doesn't strike me as an innovator when he talks about building tunnels and subways. He strikes me as Robert Moses.
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Who are these tunnels going to serve? The Latino communities in LA? Or are we just running them straight to the rich neighborhoods?
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Robert Moses permanently shaped the cultural landscape of New York City. It is what it is because of him. But it is what is because of him.
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What will Elon Musk do? What centuries-long impacts on our cities will he have, and who will profit from them? Who will pay?
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By the way,
@langdonw wrote about this in "Do Artifacts have Politics" almost *40 years ago.* https://innovate.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Winner-Do-Artifacts-Have-Politics-1980.pdf … - 11 more replies
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I went to Robert Moses Middle School and they didn't tell us ANY OF THIS UGH. I just liked that his last name more or less = my first name.
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Frustrating only because of how at odds two main legacies are
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I mean, this is how white supremacy rolls
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Everybody should read Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses, the Power Broker!
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This has been a subject of debate, e.g.: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/artefacts.pdf … & http://www.earthwidemoth.com/mt/archives/003656.html …
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But black people live on Long Island.
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Something about parkways in New York State, early days planners really wanted those roads for passenger cars only.
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