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Moses - I'm Not Banning People From the Park, Right?
In his creation of jones beech par park, robert moses becomes the founder of a discipline that is today called exclusionary architecture. The basic idea is this, if the government cannot legally stop people from being somewhere, city planters can accomplish that same goal by designing communities in such a way that it inherently excludes undesirable people. In portland right now, there's a couple of parks that, like, homeless people have been camping in. And after the cops beat them up and cleared them out, rich people in the neighborhood have legally been putting out like planters and stuff. They're filling them with gravel and dirt in areas where otherwise it would be possible to lay down u