What Is Urban Planning?
Urban planning shapes how cities grow, who benefits from that growth, and who gets displaced.
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Qualified two overstated claims: reframed the Evan Mast (2019-2021) new-construction research as evidence that market-rate building can ease nearby rents through a filtering/chain-move process, with real but modest and localized effects and as one body of evidence in a debated area, rather than a proof that new apartments reduce nearby rents; and softened the predictive-policing description to a feedback-loop risk rather than a uniform outcome across all systems. The article's Minneapolis 2040 date (adopted 2018), its account of single-family zoning's role alongside redlining and FHA policy in entrenching segregation, and its Rothstein-based history were accurate and left in place.
What the page claimedThe article said Mast proves new market-rate apartments reduce nearby rents, that predictive policing uniformly amplifies bias, that single-family zoning was the single substitute for racial exclusion, and that restrictive zoning determines segregation across metros.
What was correctedQualified the Mast and predictive-policing claims to what the evidence supports, and left the accurate zoning-and-segregation history intact.
Why: The Mast and predictive-policing claims were stated more definitively than the evidence supports; the segregation history was accurate. Corrections scope the two overstated claims rather than adding new sources.
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Confuses plan name (Minneapolis 2040) with a date; plan adopted 2018, effective ~2020, not 'in 2040.'
BeforeMinneapolis, which eliminated single-family zoning citywide in 2040,
AfterMinneapolis, which eliminated single-family zoning citywide through its Minneapolis 2040 plan (adopted in 2018),
Why: Verified the corrected text is present in the body, correctly distinguishing the plan's name (Minneapolis 2040) from its adoption date (2018). The FAQ field does not mention Minneapolis or its zoning plan, so there was no stale content to fix. No changes needed.
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