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I don't think it has anything to do with the grid, I think its disinvestment. You lived in DC, you know all those abandoned homes and vacant store fronts all over Ward 7 and Ward 8. Now, they are building highrises in those areas so things are changing.
So DC is the only city in America to have suffered from disinvestment? What about Newark, Baltimore, Philadelphia, the Bronx, etc?
So DC is the only city in America to have suffered from disinvestment? What about Newark, Baltimore, Philadelphia, the Bronx, etc?
Come on now, lets not act like Philadelphia doesn't have neighborhoods with low walk scores. Have you been to Tioga-Nicetown in Philly or Berea in Baltimore?
Come on now, lets not act like Philadelphia doesn't have neighborhoods with low walk scores. Have you been to Tioga-Nicetown in Philly or Berea in Baltimore?
Did you not read my earlier posts? I said that disinvestment can't explain away the low walk scores of some EOTR neighborhoods when even Nicetown has an 80+ walk score. Anacostia is Shangri-La compared to Nicetown.
With NYC, you have to view it by borough. So, it is more like Central/Eastern Brooklyn, SE Queens, NE/S Bronx, (parts of) Harlem/Uptown in Manhattan and even Northern/NE Staten Island.
but if we cherry pick, we could say that sections like little-haiti would have a better black experience ?
^ since this is a popularity poll, i actually find it suspicious that atlanta only has slightly more than half the votes. i expected it to be a landslide; however, most of the 100+ pages have thoughtful well evidenced counter-arguments.
also ironic, the metro with the largest black population has the fewest votes.
also surprised l.a. and oakland are missing based on popularity.
Did you not read my earlier posts? I said that disinvestment can't explain away the low walk scores of some EOTR neighborhoods when even Nicetown has an 80+ walk score. Anacostia is Shangri-La compared to Nicetown.
Nicetown has a 77 walkscore. Anacostia has a 62. It would be interesting to see what they are counting for Nicetown. It’s awful, no place to sit down and eat or anything.
(and we're talking about U.S. cities here so no Montreal)
i'm being obtuse but thread title is Capital of Black America? so including all of america honorable mentions to:
kingston
saïnt dominigue
port-au-prince
havana
panama city
rio de janeiro
caracas
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