Neighborhoods are segregated because of explicit government policy over the course of many decades in the 20th century that ensured African-Americans and whites could not live in the same neighborhoods.
Through a grant provided by AARP, CPEX worked with the Department of Public Works and BREC to build on the improvements already happening at Longfellow Park.
When we design for everyone, we make better decisions. We design a better system.
If small towns don’t find ways to fund resilience planning, they will not be able to transform themselves into the place where the next generation is going to want to live and make a family.
We should be playing offense to make sure that the residents, small-business owners and people that live, work and play in a particular area get to benefit from all the new things and the new prosperity that comes from gentrifying a community.
Our goal is to uncover the story of a place, one that’s authentic and has value, but most people don't know it's there.