Great that @hereandnow wants to talk about how cities largely subsidize the suburbs/rural areas contrary to popular myth.

Maybe they could also talk about how that myth is rooted in deep racism instead of embedding it abstractly and casually in an ode to white urbanism

I'm so so tired of white professional urbanism and the way it tries to brush race issues under the rug, it's such a scam to attract federal dollars to cities and then try and spend it all on the shit we need least and the people that need it least

Miss me forever with people who wax rhapsodic about bike lanes but don't bat an eye when @phillymayor goes on NPR and is like "we spend $$$ on state of the art robot sidewalk trash cans downtown but give Black neighborhoods not even a trash basket bc they abuse the privilege"

Incidentally one of the main reasons that poor neighborhoods tend to put more household waste in public containers is, slumlords fail to provide adequate waste disposal and the city charges $100 a household for the privilege of trash pickup

Imagine if the city spent that fancy robot trash money on treating not to rotting in trash as a basic human right and making sure that landlords did their due diligence on that front

And imagine if we stop letting "urbanists" treat white gentrifiers as urban salvation and acting like lavishing money on wealthy downtown business corridors trickles down to vulnerable communities somehow