St. Louis Anthropocene: displacement & replacement
JJPAnnotation of
In response to
A brief essay about St. Louis' notorious eminent domain history--
--along with 2 recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch articles about "urban renewal" projects that are scheduled to reoccupy the Mill Flats area, which hosted the most notorious episode of displacement of African-American communities: the Chouteau Greenway project (will it serve or displace low-income St. Louisans?); and SLU's Mill Creek Flats high-rise project, which certainly will, and whose name seems to me an especially tone-deaf if gutsy move...
https://humanities.wustl.edu/features/Margaret-Garb-St-Louis-Eminent-Domain
Environmental Violations in Newark and New Jersey
This essay highlights various enivornmental related news or policies created in the State of New Jersey, but mostly within the city of Newark.
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