Highways Destroyed Our Cities. Lets Tear Them Down

highways and urban freeways ruin our city centers. they cause traffic, take up valuable space, and cause heavy air and noise pollution. they also have a racist and destructive history of destroying black neighborhoods. the solution is to provide better alternatives such as walking, cycling, and public transit.

➜ References & Further Reading:
Highways gutted American cities. So why did they build them?
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/8605917...

Case Study: Cheonggyecheon; Seoul, Korea
https://globaldesigningcities.org/pub...

Seoul tears down an urban highway and the city can breathe again
https://grist.org/infrastructure/2011...

Remove It And They Will Disappear: New Evidence Why Building New Roads Isn't Always the Answer
https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12930

A Lesson on Induced Demand | Why Your Public Transit Matters
   • A Lesson on Induced Demand | Why Your Publ...  

Braess Paradox | Deleting Roads May Improve Traffic Flow
   • Braess Paradox | Deleting Roads May Improv...  

What happens to traffic when you tear down a freeway?
   • What happens to traffic when you tear down...  

Reducing congestion: Katy didn’t
https://cityobservatory.org/reducing-...

The Impacts of Road Capacity Removal
https://opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/vie...

Why Helsinki is Tearing Up Its Freeways
   • Why Helsinki is Tearing Up Its Freeways  

Segregation By Design
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/

Chapter 1 of the Seattle Squeeze: People drove less, took transit, and biked more
https://durkan.seattle.gov/2019/03/wh...

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➜ Timestamps:
0:00 The Cheonggyecheon Freeway
1:42 Intro
1:53 The devious auto industry
3:00 Highways destroyed American cities
3:43 Highways are racist
4:00 Why traffic exists
5:52 How to ACTUALLY fix traffic
7:24 Toronto is stupid
8:34 Electric cars are not the solution

-flurf
#highways #urbanplanning #urbandesign