How to Navigate This Site

This site looks at the intersection of urban policy and socio-environmental vulnerability within the contiguous United States. Explore the history and destructive legacies of redlining, everlasting effects, and much more. 

Start with our Interactive Timeline below to trace salient events that shaped urban inequality within our case study cities of Oakland, Detroit, and New Orleans. Dive deeper into our Narrative Analysis, where text and images unpack the structural impacts of redlining in greater details. Explore our interactive maps under the Visualizations tab for spatio-temporal insights into redlining and infrastructure changes and their ripple effects across geographies. 

If you are curious about the technical elements and who contributed, check out the About page. Otherwise, for all other research inquiries and a full list of sources click on our Annotated Bibliography and Reference List. To find specific topics, use the search tool at the top of the page.