Urban form and spatial inequality in Lexington

HOLC’s infamous residential security maps usefully highlight the relationships between race and value that were articulated in the landscape through projects like the Newtown Pike extension project. It is often tempting to correlate redlining with a great many modern social problems. Doing so, however, risks ignoring the many other histories and geographies that have accumulated in the margins of those striking splashes of red—lives lived, neighborhoods changed, and roads that leave a mark even before they are built.