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The 1920s?
by lainga 3y ago
The 1920s?
- thepasswordis 3y agoThe cities of the 1920s where absolutely horrific places to live. They were filthy and polluted. People fled them to the suburbs for a reason: because they were terrible.
- malcolmgreaves 3y ago[flagged]
- thepasswordis 3y agoThis is…factually incorrect, and honestly insulting. No I mean actual measurable particulate counts in the air around factories, and the industrial vehicles moving goods in and out of those factories. When people talk about “environmental racism”, that is: making poor people live in the worst parts of town, they’re talking about the environmental aspects of those parts of town.
- mcpackieh 3y agoThey left as soon as it became practical to leave (introduction of cars and suburbs) because of crime. The crime rate back then was inconceivable to anybody living in America today.
- bmitc 3y agoThat doesn't have anything to do with transportation though. You could also die of a kidney stone in the 1920s, but it isn't relevant to the public transportation that existed.
- mcpackieh 3y agoAll of the reasons cities sucked are relevant to the decisions people made to leave cities as soon as cars made it practical for them to live outside of cities.
- morkalork 3y agoHousing was a lot denser in cities back then. Lots of low rise appartenant buildings, tall skinny houses built right next to each other, and trams running on the major boulevards. Appently modern fire codes killed those building designs though? And lobbyists killed the trams.