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How Highway Removal Can Benefit Cities Donald Shoup James Brasuell Emily McCoy, Lindsey Naylor Devin Partida View Jobs See a full list of jobs in planning and related fields: urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, development, engineering, and more. View all jobs Post a Job Research thousands of planners, designers, architects, developers, and other professionals and academics who are working with...

Can removing highways fix America’s cities?

Would removing highways help revitalize U.S. cities, this summer will likely see a rebound in travel for resort hotels

A report in the New York Times shows how urban highway removal has gone mainstream, and it may get a boost from the Biden Administration.

Highways radically reshaped cities, destroying dense downtown neighborhoods. Now, some cities are starting to take them down.

The north section of the Inner Loop looking south from the Market View Heights neighborhood. Norman Jones is old enough to remember the Inner Loop being built more than half a century ago. “I have a clear memory of that machinery,” Jones said. “When you’re 4, 5, 6 years old, and you see big trucks and the excavators, you go, ‘Wow.’ When you see it all moved around, you just thought it was the coolest thing, and probably everyone else thought it was the coolest thing.” Th...

Where to eat in Houston right now: 10 new restaurants for posh dining and diverse dishes Where to eat in Houston: 10 new restaurants for posh + diverse dining Photo by Claudia Casbarian Photo by Carla Gomez Photo courtesy of La Colombe dOr Save room for dessert at Da Gama. Courtesy of Da Gama Photo by Becca Wright Being out and about recently leads to one obvious conclusion — Houstonians have resumed dining in restaurants. The signs of a surge in dining are everywhere. Weekend reservation...

By Syndicated Content By Andy Sullivan SYRACUSE, N.Y. (Reuters) – For more than 50 years, Interstate 81 has cut through the heart of hard-luck Syracuse, New York, raining vehicle exhaust on its Southside neighborhood, where most residents are Black and poor. Now, New York State wants to replace that elevated stretch of freeway with a street-level boulevard to knit the city’s urban grid back together. Construction could begin as soon as next year. The plan has stirred visio...

Divided highway The I-81 freeway in Syracuse, New York. REUTERS/Zoe Davis By May 25, 2021 For more than 50 years, Interstate 81 has cut through the heart of hard-luck Syracuse, New York, raining vehicle exhaust on its Southside neighborhood, where most residents are Black and poor. Now, New York State wants to replace that elevated stretch of freeway with a street-level boulevard to knit the city’s urban grid back together. Construction could begin as soon as next year. The plan has stirred ...

In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, a coalition of organizations noted widespread concerns about the accuracy of the FCC’s broadband maps and called the FCC’s attention to newly released information [2] from the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) that questions thousands of locations where significant Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (“RDOF”) funding is set to be awarded to subsidize areas that are served today. CCA found that subsidies are targeted for: Apple’...