GGR100H1 Chapter Notes -Dialectic, Shared Experience, Deindustrialization
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City is at center of social environment dialectic that connects the environmental and political. Toxic facilities are concentrated in minority dominated areas of city, major infrastructure projects with negative env impacts urban motorways commonly found in minority neighborhoods. Greatest number of commercial hazard facilities were located in area with highest composition of racial and ethnic minorities. Of chester, philadelphia manufacturing center with steel mills, shipyards, aircraft engines, ford plant deindustrialization, erode manufacturing, firms closed, workers left, town"s population became poor. Eager to lure tax-generating facilities, city government sought to redevelop old factories sites, attract business and jobs, tax revenues local communities had limited power. Vulnerable and poor residents were dumped effect was obvious, intent was difficult to prove cost benefit from these industries weighed our health of residents. Immigrants, migrants and minority communities develop around toxic areas because of operation of housing market poorest gest the least choice, end up in worst neighborhoods.
