Equity
Guest Column: A Call for Reparations in the Built Environment of Cities
Aerial imagery of Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood in 1952, before urban renewal, and in 1969, after the construction of the Central Artery. Imagery by USGS, courtesy of MapJunction.com
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