A figure once praised for vision now stands under the harsher light of evidence. In this second installment, the story shifts from myth to method, tracing how a single mind reshaped a city and, in doing so, reshaped its people. What emerges is a portrait built not from rumor, but from records, reforms, and the quiet calculations that redraw a map while rewriting a legacy.

This chapter examines the costs behind the grandeur — the neighborhoods erased, the lives displaced, the order imposed in the name of progress. It is a case study in how ambition becomes accusation, how design becomes dominion, and how a public figure becomes a public enemy without ever lifting a weapon.

Part II invites listeners to sit with the uncomfortable truth: sometimes a villain is not born in darkness, but in the bright, deliberate lines of a plan carried out to perfection.

This is the beginning of a larger investigation. Today, you hear their account. On Thursday, we turn to the evidence, the records, and the identity behind the voice.

The Making of a Villain begins here.

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Produced by Michael Washington Brown, with care and intention.

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