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       Historical Redlining and Present-Day Air Pollution Disparities in
       U.S. Cities
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2022-03-12 14:13 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | Full title: Historical Redlining Is Associated with Present-Day
       | Air Pollution Disparities in U.S. Cities
        
       | thegginthesky wrote:
       | Does anyone know of a good dataset on redlining? I'm looking for
       | the polygon coordinates and if it was red, yellow, green or blue.
       | I found several maps in image/pdf format but nothing that I could
       | easily translate to Zip Code Tabulation Area.
        
         | thegginthesky wrote:
         | I should've read the paper carefully, because I found a link
         | for it in the references
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         | https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=6/39.741/-7...
        
       | baron816 wrote:
       | The story here is that polluters look for cheap land (and
       | probably proximity to cheap labor) to set up shop. I'm sure
       | racism plays a part in it too though.
        
         | rayiner wrote:
         | That's literally what "structural racism" means. Policies that
         | were expressly racist (based on prejudice) create conditions
         | where there are racially disparate effects from forces that
         | aren't expressly racist (prejudiced).
         | 
         | Great book on redlining and related issues:
         | https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-
         | forgotten.... See chapters 3 and 4.
        
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