Neighborhoods Like Gilpin are Baking in the Summer Heat, Deliberately
- Date Range
- 2021 – 2021
- Title
- Neighborhoods Like Gilpin are Baking in the Summer Heat, Deliberately
- What occurred
- As a result of historical practices of red lining, certain neighborhoods in cities are facing the brunt of the effects of climate change. In places like Gilpin in urban Richmond, Virginia, there is less tree cover as well as less access to parks and community resources. Areas like Gilpin were created through racist zoning practices that kept minorities to certain areas that were underdeveloped. As a result of this, residents do not have adequate access to healthy foods or swimming pools
- Location
- 900 St James St, Richmond, VA 23220
- Image Citation
- Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich, How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering
- Student name(s)
- Destiny Hallenbeck