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The publication of Segregation in Washington in late 1948, coming so soon after the Hurd decision, accelerated racial progress. In the next year, Washington hosted an integrated presidential inauguration, local white parochial schools lifted racial exclusions, and the National Zoo and Washington National Airport eliminated their segregation policies. The National Capital Parks and Planning Commission added a black architect and removed all racial designations from its planning maps.
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Newton’s laws explained so many things—the slosh and roll of ocean tides, the motions of planets, why cannonballs trace a particular trajectory before thudding back to Earth, why we aren’t flung into space as the planet spins beneath us at hundreds of miles an hour†—that it took a while for all their implications to seep in.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Residents who have chosen to live in older buildings in older neighborhoods depend on the public parking supply and do not want to share it. In these places, parking requirements for new buildings function as a protection racket, forcing new neighbors to pay for what old neighbors get for free on the street.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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