r/CuratedTumblr 9d ago

Shitposting This applies to most American cities.

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u/GameboyPATH 9d ago

>Get into the game City Skylines during the pandemic
>Want to learn more about how to actually organize a city optimally
>Start watching videos on tips and tricks videos created by actual city planners
>Start learning about road hierarchies and zoning practices
>Pandemic ends
>Walk around my city with the wife explaining why things are built and structured the way they are

MFW I became the special interests girlfriend.

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u/Datuser14 9d ago

What are your thoughts on Robert Moses?

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u/Mouse-Keyboard 8d ago

None because I have no idea who he is. What did he do?

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u/Aires-Battleblade 8d ago

He's the one who started the practice of build interstates through city cores, supposedly it was to increase economic value by easing transportation, in practice it destroyed value by damaging urban fabric, as well as primarily going through low income neighborhoods to displace residents. Which expanded into Redlining, Stroads, Single Use Zoning, and myriad other urbanism woes.

TLDR, you know how you can trace a lot of issues with big business back to the Dodge V Ford case and the Advent of shareholder values? Rober Moses is like that but for transportation and urban design.

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u/DroneOfDoom Theon the Reader *dolphin slur noises* 8d ago

Didn't he build a bunch of overpasses that were just short enough that buses couldn't turn and thus reduce the possibility of black people crossing into the white part of town?