Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA - Softcover

Heyda, Patty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1953368751 ISBN 13: 9781953368751

Verlag: Belt Publishing, 2024

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Ferguson, Missouri, became the epicenter of America’s racial tensions after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown and the protests that followed in its wake.

Though this suburb just outside St. Louis might have seemed like an average midwestern town, the activism that exploded there after Brown’s killing laid bare how longstanding municipal planning policies had led to racial segregation, fragmentation, poverty, and police targeting.

In over one hundred maps, Patty Heyda charts the systemic forces that have defined Ferguson, and the first-ring suburb in America more broadly. Through an in-depth look at the contradictions undergirding city planning and design, it illuminates how tax incentives, housing codes, urban design, policing, philanthropy, and even landscaping often work against the betterment of residents’ lives. At its heart lies a key question: Just who are our cities being built for?

A profound rethinking of what maps can be, Radical Atlas of Ferguson USA will challenge city planners, designers, and everyday citizens to change their perspective of public space.

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Patty Heyda is associate professor of architecture and urban design at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the coauthor of Rebuilding the American City (Routledge).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Belt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1953368751
• ISBN 13: 9781953368751
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 305
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