Racial, economic and design barriers to open cities (Baltimore, architect, residential)

[barante]

Daniel D'Oca is a New York City architect and a professor at Baltimore's Maryland Institute College of Arts. He also has curated an exhibit on various barriers to open cities that has been on view at the Dutch Architectural Museum in Rotterdam.
Here is his blog, with his take on Antero Pietila's explosive Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City. Arsenal of Exclusion / Inclusion: Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
Another resource is Wendy Plotkin, who is working on a book about restrictive covenants, which were the chief instrument of enforcing racial, ethnic, economic and religious segregation in neighborhoods after laws based on Baltimore's pioneering 1910 residential segregation ordinance were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1917. Wendy Plotkin Professional WWW Page

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by barante

Daniel D'Oca is a New York City architect and a professor at Baltimore's Maryland Institute College of Arts. He also has curated an exhibit on various barriers to open cities that has been on view at the Dutch Architectural Museum in Rotterdam.
Here is his blog, with his take on Antero Pietila's explosive Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City. Arsenal of Exclusion / Inclusion: Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
Another resource is Wendy Plotkin, who is working on a book about restrictive covenants, which were the chief instrument of enforcing racial, ethnic, economic and religious segregation in neighborhoods after laws based on Baltimore's pioneering 1910 residential segregation ordinance were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1917. Wendy Plotkin Professional WWW Page

Interesting information and Baltimore is not alone in terms of what happened in this regard.

[xGrendelx]

I'm currently reading Not In My Neighborhood. It's a really interesting take on the history of the city, and I'm sure it can speak for more than just Baltimore.

[northstar22]

Fortunately, times have changed. If new cities could be designed today, they would be largely without these barriers.

[barante]

I urge you to take a look at Daniel D'Oca's blog. If you consider Oscar Newman's defensible space strategies, for example, they work in many cases because they are based on excluding certain uses and elements. One-way streets to keep the "undesirables" from entering.