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Ideas + Action for a Better City learn more at SPUR.org tweet about - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Ideas + Action for a Better City learn more at SPUR.org tweet about this event: @SPUR_Urbanist # RoadtoResegregation The Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Alex Schafran Failure of Politics @alexschafran The Problem:
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The Problem: Resegregation as a Fact
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NH Whites NH Blacks Hispanics
Source: NCDB at 2000 tracks via UC Data
A new mental map of segregation is needed: Bay Area 1970
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A new mental map of segregation is needed: Ghettoized Segregation
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20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 120,000 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
African Americans in San Francisco and San Joaquin Counties, 1970-
- 2008. Source: Rand CA via US Census
San Francisco County San Joaquin County
A new mental map of segregation is needed: Mobile Segregation?
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A new mental map of segregation is needed: Mobile Segregation?
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How did this happen in the wealthiest and most ‘progressive’ region in the country?
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How to meet the needs of more people in California, while at the same time respecting fundamental limits on our tax dollars and natural resources is
- ne of the inexorable
challenges we face. This Urban Strategy begins to meet that challenge. It gives focus to thousands of individual decisions which will affect California' s cities and suburbs by directing state and local governments toward a common purpose: the revitalization
- f existing cities and the
sound management of new urban development.
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Deep political fragmentation in the politics of space, place and race. Lack of effective politics of planning, development and urbanization.
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The Doughtery Valley Dilemma: When two powerful sides fight it
- ut, and most of us lose no matter
who wins.
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The Gentrification Dilemma: The choice between abandonment and displacement. The reality of both happening at the same time.
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The Planning Dilemma: When any act to make a place better makes it more expensive and exclusive
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How do we fix our broken development politics?
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Eight principles for building common purpose
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- 1. Embrace an urbanization-centered politics
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- 2. Demand broad
institutional responsibility for urban development
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- 3. Restorative Justice
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- 4. Combatting Exploitation and
the Duty to Protect
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- 5. Reconstruct the growth machine
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- 6. Develop a vision for all people and places
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- 7. Teach urbanization widely
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- 8. Rebuild the possibility of progress
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The Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Failure of Politics
Alex Schafran @alexschafran alexschafran.com https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/geography/staff/1100/dr-alex-schafran
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