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From flammable neighborhoods to moral hazards, fire insurance maps capture early US cities and the landscape of discrimination

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From flammable neighborhoods to moral hazards, fire insurance maps capture early US cities and the landscape of discrimination

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1909 Sanborn map of Suffolk County in Boston, Mass. Library of Congress Imagine a map that allows you to see what your ...

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From flammable neighborhoods to moral hazards, fire insurance maps capture early US cities and the landscape of discrimination

(THE CONVERSATION) Imagine a map that allows you to see what your neighborhood looked like a century ago in immense detail. What you’re thinking of is probably very much like the fire insurance maps ...
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