Moses was pro-automobile and anti-public transit. When he built bridges, he refused to add rail support, though he could have.
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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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And here in Portland
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Idk if Moses was involved but this sounds a LOT like Chicago. It's not an accident most CTA lines serve historically white hoods.
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He wasn't directly, but his "planning" solutions informed the implementation of segregation, even in major cities that did not hire him.
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Should clarify: in Portland he didn't use racial component. We'd already made it super white. KKK, redlined, racial exclusion laws, etc.
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Why Latin-American communities"
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I focused on those communities specifically as they are under threat from ICE and it highlights a specific intersectionality.
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I don't think they will do a damn thing. He is completely insane if he thinks he can randomly tunnel under LA without massive oversight.
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I can see it going to gentrified progressive "tech" neighborhoods around downtowns all over America. Or uber rich suburbs/gated communities
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It's not going ANYWHERE. he's insane.
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He seems to be getting everything he wants thus far. SpaceX contracts for NASA, Tesla loan, tax payer funding his giga factory.
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Lots of $ but zero results in the infrastructure department. Hyperloop is a joke.
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Space travel is a sort of infrastructure. So are solar panels, and the residential battery. We'll see on the hyperloop.
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He's an innovator. But
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Now that being said I couldn't agree more. A person as influential as him should read at least one Jan Gehl book before messing with this.
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East Coast person with no knowledge of LA transportation history tries spreading F.U.D. with no evidence. LA Robert Moses already happened.
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It's a possibility, but what connects Musk to Moses beyond wanting to make car tunnels? Doesn't seem v tight connection to me.
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Lots of people want to build car tunnels; doesn't nec show racism. Musk has long history of tech innovation. Moses had long hist of racism
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