Read more The post Hedgehogs and Highways: How Gardens Are Becoming Urban Habitats appeared first on ... The urban hedgehog’s struggle is a stark reminder of how human progress can ...

In 1956, the U.S. Congress passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, the $25 billion program that launched the Interstate Highway System. The law, which encouraged highway construction across the ...

None of these problems seal an argument against highway removal, say urban activists. The Congress for the New Urbanism, a nonprofit focused on sustainable urban development, has identified 15 ...

While some examples of racism in U.S. highway planning have been cited from the 1930s and 1940s, the highest-profile allegations have involved the Interstate Highway System, which was established ...

And then I learned about Patrick Kennedy’s campaign to remove I-345 in Dallas, and that felt like a third act — the ultimate argument of the book, that we should tear down these urban highways ...

The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill enacted in November 2021 will bring money to cities for much-needed investments in roads, bridges, public transit networks, water infrastructure, electric power ...

Removing urban highways could transform cities and help heal a legacy of racist planning. But it won't be possible without help from the federal government.

America's urban interstate highway system is a failure. How's that for taking the moo out of a sacred cow? I speak from recent experience. A couple of weeks ago I drove from New England to North ...

Urban highways are promised to get people to their destinations faster—and bring them together. But at the same time, they reduce social connections between people within the city, especially at ...