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Tag Archives: demolition
Healing Interstate injustice by removing freeways
Back in 2018, I wrote a post about the trend in freeway-capping projects. These efforts are an attempt to partially rectify (or put a bandaid over) the injustices of America’s highway-building mania that took place between the 1940s and 1980s. A … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative transportation, Cars, Cities, civics, Civil Rights, civility, commerce, culture, economic development, economic gardening, environment, geography, health, Highway displacement, history, Housing, inclusiveness, infrastructure, injustice, land use, Maps, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, politics, pollution, racism, revitalization, social equity, spatial design, Statistics, tourism, Trade, traffic, transportation, urban planning, visual pollution
Tagged boulevards, cities, demolition, freeways, highways, immoral highways, inequity, injustice, Interstate injustice, Interstates, replacement
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The price we pay for our disposable ways
If you are an urban planner and have not listened to the Tuesdays at APA podcasts, you really should. A number of these have been superb presentations that provide valuable insights. The podcast I listened to over the past Easter … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, architecture, cities, civics, climate change, commerce, culture, density, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, economics, energy, entrepreneurship, environment, geography, health, historic preservation, history, Housing, humanity, infrastructure, land use, nature, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, pollution, product design, recycling, revitalization, Science, skylines, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, sustainability, technology, urban planning, zoning
Tagged adaptive reuse, APA, buildings, carbon footprint, cities, climate change, construction, demolition, historic preservation, history, land use, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Patrice Frey, planning, revitalization, sprawl, sustainability, Tuesdays at APA, urban planning
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