Started by Jun Hayashi (@jun_hayashi) ·
how American cities ran highways through their downtowns
Started with why a freeway cuts my city in half. Ended up at Robert Moses vs Jane Jacobs, which is basically the origin story of modern urbanism fights.
6 sources · 58 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “why do highways go through cities”
- Ended at
- Jane Jacobs
The Trail
- “why do highways go through cities” (google.com)
- Interstate Highway System (en.wikipedia.org)
- Urban renewal (en.wikipedia.org)
- Robert Moses (en.wikipedia.org)
- The Power Broker (en.wikipedia.org)
1,300 pages. I'm 200 in.
- Jane Jacobs (en.wikipedia.org)
Keep going
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