Gioielli, Robert (Author)
This essay explores how certain residents of Baltimore, Maryland, in the late 1960s perceived governmental efforts to construct an urban highway system as an enclosure of the commons. Baltimore's political and business leaders believed that highways were required to keep the city, and particularly downtown businesses, economically competitive. Highway plans targeted African American and, to a lesser extent, working-class white neighborhoods. Because it destroyed community resources, limited housing options, and caused general degradation in surrounding neighborhoods, residents saw the construction of the highway as a form of enclosure. This is an inversion of the traditional definition of enclosure; the road was for public use, whereas much of the property condemned and destroyed was privately owned. But antihighway activists argued that the road would only benefit a privileged few, primarily white suburbanites, while destroying resources publicly available to minority and working-class communities. Understanding Baltimore's highway protests as anti-enclosure activism shows how the residents of postwar cities in the United States experienced destructive urban renewal and highway construction projects. It also portends recent efforts by municipal governments to condemn and reappropriate urban land for private development, while simultaneously claiming that these actions are for the public good.
...MoreDescription On perceptions of residents of Baltimore, Maryland, in the late 1960s to a government-built urban highway system.
Article Armiero, Marco (2011) Enclosing the Sea: Remaking Work and Leisure Spaces on the Naples Waterfront, 1870--1900. Radical History Review (p. 13).
Book
Norton, Peter D.;
(2008)
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
(/isis/citation/CBB000774891/)
Chapter
Katherine W. Rinne;
(2010)
Water: The Currency of Cardinals in Late Renaissance Rome
(/isis/citation/CBB192434917/)
Article
Johnes, Martin;
(2014)
“M4 to Wales--and Prosper!” A History of a Motorway
(/isis/citation/CBB001202090/)
Article
Geels, Frank W.;
(2007)
Transformations of Large Technical Systems
(/isis/citation/CBB000831428/)
Article
Harvey, Katherine A.;
(2005)
Practicing Medicine at the Baltimore Almshouse, 1828-1850
(/isis/citation/CBB000660304/)
Book
David Morton;
(2019)
Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique
(/isis/citation/CBB769475160/)
Article
Christopher, Milbourne;
(2005)
Magic in Early Baltimore
(/isis/citation/CBB000660305/)
Book
Jessa Lingel;
(2021)
The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom
(/isis/citation/CBB153399179/)
Article
Reijer Hendrikse;
Ilke Adriaans;
Tobias J. Klinge;
Rodrigo Fernandez;
(2022)
The Big Techification of Everything
(/isis/citation/CBB019537404/)
Article
Jeon, Chihyung;
(2010)
A Road to Modernization and Unification: The Construction of the Gyeongbu Highway in South Korea
(/isis/citation/CBB000953998/)
Chapter
Valentina Roxo;
(2012)
Missing Green in the Black Gold: Environment in the Public Debate on West Siberian Oil Production from the 1970s to the Present
(/isis/citation/CBB489828036/)
Article
Garb, Yaakov;
(2004)
Constructing the Trans-Israel Highway's Inevitability
(/isis/citation/CBB000641096/)
Book
Penelope Harvey;
Hannah Know;
(2015)
Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise
(/isis/citation/CBB102244856/)
Article
Alfred Lameli;
(2018)
Alte Karten, neue Daten. Zur Transformation eines historischen Grundlagenwerks der Sprachwissenschaft
(/isis/citation/CBB380372109/)
Book
Kenny Cupers;
Catharina Gabrielsson;
Helena Mattsson;
(2020)
Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present
(/isis/citation/CBB454741476/)
Chapter
Yves Bouvier;
(2012)
Filming Electrical Consumption: EDF’s Promotional Films (1946-2004)
(/isis/citation/CBB509113873/)
Book
Robert R. Gioielli;
(2014)
Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago
(/isis/citation/CBB832812863/)
Book
John Christopher;
(2014)
Organisation TODT: From the Autobahns to the Atlantic Wall
(/isis/citation/CBB474855332/)
Book
Courland, Robert;
(2011)
Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
(/isis/citation/CBB001421924/)
Book
Nathalie Montel;
(2015)
Écrire et publier des savoirs au XIXe siècle. Une revue en construction : les Annales des ponts et chaussées (1831-1866)
(/isis/citation/CBB882185058/)
Be the first to comment!