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Ethnographic Accounts

City Limits sees urban interstate development through the eyes of community organizers

Patch Job

The Chinatown Stitch, an urban design project that would cap part of the Vine Street Expressway, moves forward in Philadelphia

Another Day of Sun

I-10 freeway in Los Angeles reopens weeks before schedule after November 11 fire

Righting a Wrong

SWA and Streets for All have a plan to convert L.A.’s Marina Freeway into a linear park with affordable housing

aerial view of trenton showing route 29
Meet Me By the River

Trenton’s Route 29 Boulevard Project seeks to reconnect Trentonians to the Delaware River and jumpstart a struggling city

burned and damaged section of highway
Infrastructure Week(s)

A collapsed section of I-95 in Philadelphia will take months to rebuild following a fire

Southern Gateway

Progress is underway on Dallas’s highway cap over Interstate 35E

The 411 on I-45

Controversial Houston highway expansion will resume following civil rights investigation

map of miami with highlighted highways project built between the mid-1950s and 1984.
Paradise Paved Over

Segregation by Design maps highway expansion in Florida’s Magic City

a plant-covered archway beneath an elevated highway
Dead Space Comes Alive

A greenery-swaddled community space opens beneath an elevated highway in Mumbai

Rendering of the Scajaquada Expressway, a torn down highway, converted into a riverfront boulevard
Bring ’em Down

Cities around the country explore removing elevated highways with federal funding

A houston highway with a tangle of lanes, set to be expanded under NHHIP
End Of The Road?

A highway expansion project in Houston is the site of a battle over environmental justice

Rendering of a chapel interior bathed in red light
I Can't Thrive 55

Herzog & de Meuron reveal Switzerland’s first roadside chapel

An overpass with yellow light beneath it, from M53, film still by Mark Leckey
Art Imitates Life

Turner Prize-winner Mark Leckey to build an interstate in the Tate

Central Atlanta Progress The Stitch
Highway Hangover

Three deck park proposals pop up over Atlanta’s congested urban core

Photo of the I-65/John F. Kennedy Bridge and Abraham Lincoln Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky
Building Barriers, Not Bridges

People aren’t using Kentucky’s new $1.3 billion bridge and highway system

Senator Gillibrand Flickr
Highway to Votes

Senator Gillibrand and her Republican challenger spar over Syracuse’s I-81

Santa Monica looks to cap Interstate 10 in new downtown plan. (Steve lyon/Wikimedia)
Parks over Parking

Santa Monica looks to cap Interstate 10 in new downtown plan

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