Throughout Connolly’s work, it becomes very evident that urban planning decisions do not only change the physical structure and outlook of the city (in this case Miami) but also the way in which spaces can be and are inhabited and used in the everyday sense of the term.Ī World More Concrete points to the strong links between property ownership and power, between planning and culture, and between social class and practices of placemaking throughout the twentieth century.
At a time when the long-term consequences of both Jim Crow and urban renewal are still painfully evident across the United States’s urban landscape, studies such as A World More Concrete help understand how the contemporary structures of white supremacy and power came into being in the first place. With its emphasis on Miami, Florida, this timely work is an important addition to a number of books focusing on the relationships between urban planning and African American communities throughout the twentieth century, among them June Thomas’s 1997 study of postwar Detroit, Redevelopment and Race, and Charles Connerly’s The Most Segregated City in America: City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920–1980 (2005). A WORLD MORE CONCRETE: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida.
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