The geographic logic behind why urban poverty clusters on the east side
In short: Why do marginalized communities so often find themselves on the east side of a city? This talk explores how environmental factors and deliberate human design have created systemic disparity by design.
Anthropologist Stephen DeBerry examines the commonalities between communities on social, economic, and environmental margins. He argues that these disparities are not accidental but are the result of both natural geography and man-made decisions.
By looking at locations ranging from East Palo Alto to East Jerusalem, DeBerry illustrates how urban planning has historically favored certain directions over others. The talk aims to identify these patterns of 'disparity by design' while proposing elegant solutions to rectify these long-standing geographic inequities.
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