New urbanism was hostile to the very built environment of black, poor people lived in cities. It's a profoundly middle like, white middle class estetic. And just pepfut people, and like an incredibly difficult position, unable to find housing. In places like chicago, is like a critical place, but i think it happened all over the places,. likethen it ti reinforced residential segregation m in many different places.
Dan's second episode with historian Lily Geismer, who he interviewed in 2019 about Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. This interview is on Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, which details the long history of Clintonism and the Democrats’ neoliberal turn.
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