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Interstate Displacement - The Legacy of Robert Moses - Extra History (Patreon)

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2021-02-17 18:31:48
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2022-01

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One man's architectural hero is another man's monster of gentrification and displacement. 

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Interstate Displacement - The Legacy of Robert Moses - Extra History

Thank you to Child & Teen Checkups. If you live in Minnesota, learn more at http://U21checkups.com. If you don’t, check here: https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/benefits/epsdt/index.html Last week we talked about redlining and now we need to tackle another systemic issue. With minority groups denied money and loans to be able to grow the value of a property or their neighborhoods, cities began looking at minority communities as blights upon their urban landscape. Enter Robert Moses, the architect of the modern city. Moses had a plan to revitalize the urban landscape by redesigning it for the automobile. He designed lush parks and oases with the idea to make them accessible to anyone with a car, especially to the affluent folks of the suburbs. That meant highways and building projects... built right on top of already existing communities. And with the Federal Aid Highway Act, that problem spiraled out of New York and across all of America. ___________ Support the people who make this show, vote for future Extra History topics and get great perks at our Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon Subscribe & ! to our channel on YouTube at http://bit.ly/SubToEC Got more info about Extra Credits on our website at http://extracredits.site/ Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://extracredits.store/ ___________ Thanks for participating in this week's discussion! We want you to be aware of our community posting guidelines so that we can have high-quality conversations: https://www.extracredits.site/extra-credits-community-code-of-con Come chat with us live on Twitch http://bit.ly/ECtwitch ___________ Want more Extra Credits? Follow us on social media: Twitter : http://bit.ly/ECTweet Facebook : http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Instagram : http://bit.ly/ECisonInstagram ___________ ♪ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♪ Outro music: "Air & Light" by Sean and Dean Kiner http://www.thekinerbrothersmusic.com/extra-history/

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Anonymous

Well Done! I really appreciate these videos highlighting the often overlooked the history of African Americans and the systemic problems we've had to endure!

Sientir

I'm really glad ya'll are covering this stuff that for some reason I was never taught in school. :(

Anonymous

Is am a big fan of extra credits ever since the first extra history. I was always a reader but extra sy-fy made me a sience fiction fan. Not to talk about extra mythology which told me so much about the mindset of different peoples and cultuurs. This channel was the reason I opened a petreon account. But I have to get this of my chest. Over the last couple of months I feel the channel has become more political. I am not saying that it is not important to talk about racism, sexism and equality but please make it less heavy handed. I miss the time when every weeks the extra credits made me think about how the world is put together true game’s. When I learnd about history of the romans and middel ages of which we still feel the echo’s. As a big fan i ask you this. Pleas pleas don’t make this channel which made me rethink the world around me in another channel driven by American politics. Cincearly A humble international subscriber.

Anonymous

I posted this on Youtube but not sure if it will be seen in the noise. I've long been fascinated by Robert Moses, Taylorism, and related ideologies. It's worth a series in it own right. Racism is almost a necessary byproduct of the ideology. If you want to understand Moses you need to watch https://youtu.be/sClZqfnWqmc?t=1177 where explains that running highways through slums was a feature as part of the new city in which work, play and everything was strictly separated. It took Jane Jacobs to point out how terrible this was and how much havoc it wreaked on cities. That's a topic in its own right. When I first watched this video I thought -- that would be crazy then I realized that, in fact, this is just what was implemented. Check out Taylorism and the other abuses of science in pursuit of the one true perfect. Add racism to that be it and we have a very toxic brew. Note this was just before World War II and the master race.

Anonymous

As much as I admire and agree with the majority of the episode, I find myself troubled by the conclusions. The US still is faced with the problem that our desperately needed infrastructure improvements are way more expensive and slow moving than comparable countries. Building the I-94, I-375 and Lodge corridors and maintaining them in Detroit, for example, was and remains viciously destructive. I lived in the redeveloped Black Bottom (which was nice in some ways, but only because certain residents put in some significant effort to make it work, not because of how it was designed) and now I live in a neighborhood spared the destructive inter city freeway so it retained the vibrant multiculturalism but now has the problems of gentrification and NIMBYism. The difference is telling, though each has its own aspects to love. However today we are faced with comparative costs like $2.6b to build a mile of subway in NYC but $200m per mile in Paris. Or the London Crossrail. Or the German S-bahn systems. The US needs infrastructure improvement. I am not saying the solution is heavy handed government dictation, but the infrastructure problem in the US is a deeply complicated problem. I don't think the Chinese way of building high speed rail is any better than the US interstate system in the 1950s, but the US is clearly getting core concepts wrong too. The intrinsically racist system is a ponderous aspect, and I'd agree the most heavily weighing one. This episode only had the tiniest hint of the people who have put significant effort into fixing the heavy handed interstate system in this episode. They've done some hard, quixotic work. They pulled down the Market Street freeway in San Francisco which improved the area greatly. At the same time, those efforts are controversial too. This is where history meets the present. What the US did in the Interstate era was racist central planning. This episode celebrates modern neighborhood inclusion in decision making. I agree that is good, but as we are finding in many cases like the housing issues in San Francisco, Seattle and Denver for example, this leeks into the NIMBYism problem (with connections to gentrification and racial issues). Detroit mass transit, San Francisco's inability to make new housing, etc, all of these link modern racial problems with infrastructure, red lining and other historical efforts to keep races apart and keep black and Hispanic people down. This episode needs more depth. I have faith in your ability build better, more episodes on the topic please!

Anonymous
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I really appreciate your opinion on this channel. Especially given that we are both Patreons, it shows that people of differing points of view can still find value in the same ideas, histories, and mythologies. However, as an African American, I don't see this as political, I see them as exploring the history of my people in a very sensitive and honest way. I understand that these topics can be heavy but, I do think it is important that we be brave in facing up to our history. Sometimes, there it can cheapen the true consequences of the history if we seek to "lighten it" or make it less heavy-handed. This isn't to attack you or your opinion. I really do appreciate you sharing your opinion and that you do support the channel, especially as an international subscriber. I only ask that when you are feeling that the topic is too heavy to take a step back and think of someone like me when you feel that in the future. Either way, we are Patreon family with Extra Credits and I hope it stays that way. Have a blessed day!

Anonymous

As usual, the poor suffer while the rich line their coffers. Sometimes I wish I had a time machine so I could scream in Robert Moses's face about what a racist b****** he is.

Bill Lemmond

The white power structure failed me from first grade onward, as white kids decided my undiagnosed disabilities were too different. After 30 years' clinical depression, wishing for a terminal illness. for health reasons, I need to stick to happy, funny stories. And I already know about this one. I stick up for oppressed people, all I can, but I have to avoid seeing this one. Wish I could force clueless white people to watch it, over and over.