News

Urban highways are promised to get people to their destinations faster—and bring them together. But at the same time, they ...
America's Interstate Highway System cut through the hearts of many downtowns when it was built in the 1950s and 1960s, ...
We should tear down urban highways. Rochester, New York, did just that. The city removed part of its Inner Loop highway in 2017 and built affordable housing in its place.
Highways, in their inanimate state, cannot be racist. However, the forces that located them and the consequences of their placement are inextricably connected to race. Deborah Archer, a law ...
Urban Highways Cost Billions in Lost Home Value, Property Taxes. A new study quantifies the monetary loss of interstates that displaced residents and neighborhoods in Washington, DC and Atlanta.
A ring of 1960s-era highways encircles downtown Houston, dividing nearby neighborhoods along racial lines and separating them from the city’s urban core. Instead of pursuing ways to connect the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Urban highways promise 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 ...
America's Interstate Highway System cut through the hearts of many downtowns when it was built in the '50s and '60s, leaving a legacy of inequality and urban impoverishment.
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 ...