The Chinese neighborhood in Seattle was mostly leveled by a freeway interchange; this pattern is not as rare as you suggest. https://crosscut.com/opinion/2021/

The Chinese neighborhood in Seattle was mostly leveled by a freeway interchange; this pattern is not as rare as you suggest. https://crosscut.com/opinion/2021/04/legacy-racism-built-northwest-highways-and-roads https://crosscut.com/opinion/2021/04/legacy-racism-built-nor... In San Francisco, the "redevelopment" of the Western Addition is a famous example of a public project that targeted certain minorities. The city basically took a wrecking ball to the heart of the black community in San Francisco, and it never really recovered afterwards. https://www.sfpublicpress.org/fillmore-revisited-how-redevelopment-tore-through-the-western-addition/ https://www.sfpublicpress.org/fillmore-revisited-how-redevel...