How malls and freeways helped segregate America
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 26, 2022
Hopping into a Chevy Bel Air and commuting from the 'burbs to a city job or pulling up to the nearest mall to do some shopping or hang with friends at the food court — these were concepts sold as part of the American dream when they were introduced in the U.S. in the 1950s.
But some architects and design critics say these innovations were actually vehicles of segregation that destroyed communities of colour in the U.S. and further separated them from white America.
Adam Paul Susaneck is a New York City-based architect . . .
