I DON’T CONDONE CRIME, BUT I ALSO DO NOT CONDONE THE DEMONIZING OF CITIES AND THE DIVERSE PEOPLE THAT POWER THEM
Unable to sleep because of severe concussion symptoms, I wondered how the violent crime would impact me.
Would I, a
longtime urban dweller and planner, sour on cities?
Would my
progressive politics shift?
No, quite
the opposite.
My belief in
diversity and how big cities support diverse people is unshaken.
Not that
long ago, people who used wheelchairs were barred from mainstream institutions
and hauled off to “special” schools.
They had to
fight to attend college.
To this day,
34 years after the passage of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act,
less than one percent of housing in the U.S. is accessible to wheelchair users.
Otherwise
intelligent people pejoratively label the liberating use of a mobility device
as being “confined to a wheelchair.”
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