Redlining our urban neighborhoods & real estate to ruin

If you believe sprawl just magically happened, here's something that visually suggests otherwise. Thanks to researchers at the University of Richmond, Mapping Inequality offers unprecedented online access to the national collection of 'security maps' produced between 1935 and 1940, that doomed thousands of inner city neighborhoods to the negative effect of redlining.

Other U.S. Cities in 1940

San Francisco - 634,536

New Orleans - 494,537

Indianapolis - 386,972

Atlanta - 302,288

Dallas - 294,734

San Diego - 203,341

Jacksonville - 173,065

Miami - 172,172

Tampa - 108,391

San Jose - 68,457

MAPPING INEQUALITY Redlining in New Deal America Digital Platform Here

Article by Ennis Davis, AICP. Contact Ennis at edavis@moderncities.com