001 Cincinnati’s West End with Josh Junker

Urbanist and activist Josh Junker (twitter) talks with us about the destruction of Cincinnati’s West End. LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Show Notes Read Joshua Junker’s twitter feed @JoshJunker2 West End wikipedia article West End Stories Project – Listen to the stories from people in the neighborhood on Apple Podcast or Spotify 2020 Vision: Cincinnati’s West End Kenyon-Barr: Cincinnati apologizes for razing neighborhood Transcript Cincinnati was incredibly crowded, outside of New York we had the most densely populated urban core in the country.  What was historically called the West End was anywhere east of Mill Creek west of Central Parkway and Central Avenue. And then south of Harrison Avenue and then the Ohio River on the south. It took up about half of the urban basin of Cincinnati and it grew to be a really prosperous and dense neighborhood. By 1890 it had 84,000 people living in it.  Cincinnati through its history till around 1835 was growing very slowly, it was the largest city west of the Appalachians, but it wasn’t anywhere near prominence. Around the 1840s West End started developing and then it was annex to the city. It wasn’t even in the city until the 1840’s. Around 1840s through the 1870s, the entire urban basin area of Cincinnati which includes downtown Pendleton over the Rhine and West End, just exploded in population [00:01:00] because so many people were coming to Cincinnati.   Both sides of my family has lived here since the mid 18 hundreds. My dad’s side has been here since 1870s and my mom’s side has been here since the 1850s. They have been here for a while. And that’s how I get to hear