West Oakland: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
West Oakland: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a 3-D web-based virtual walking tour aimed at documenting the cycles of Black displacement and housing insecurity in West Oakland, as well as to preserve the Black voices Oakland is rapidly losing. Faced with a housing crisis and large waves of Black displacement, this project urgently asks, how exactly did West Oakland become what it is today?
Overlaying multi-generation narratives, this project combines oral history, archival imagery, and forensic mapping to trace the actors involved in West Oakland’s redevelopment. This project argues that these infrastructural decisions not only set West Oakland on a path of vast inequality, but that history is now repeating itself through the processes of rapid gentrification that are once again, displacing Black residents.
West Oakland: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
West Oakland: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a 3-D web-based virtual walking tour aimed at documenting the cycles of Black displacement and housing insecurity in West Oakland, as well as to preserve the Black voices Oakland is rapidly losing. Faced with a housing crisis and large waves of Black displacement, this project urgently asks, how exactly did West Oakland become what it is today?
Overlaying multi-generation narratives, this project combines oral history, archival imagery, and forensic mapping to trace the actors involved in West Oakland’s redevelopment. This project argues that these infrastructural decisions not only set West Oakland on a path of vast inequality, but that history is now repeating itself through the processes of rapid gentrification that are once again, displacing Black residents.