I wanna talk a sec about public transit and Elon Musk in a serious sort of way not sarcastically.
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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 … -
Moses did this in several cities, including New Orleans.
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