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Justice and the Interstates: The Racist Truth about Urban Highways

Justice and the Interstates: The Racist Truth about Urban Highways

Retzlaff, Rebecca
Reft, Ryan
Lucas, Amanda Phillips de

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ISBN10: 1642832618
ISBN13: 9781642832617
Publisher: Island Press
Published: Jan 31 2023
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

When the U.S. interstate system was constructed, spurred by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, many highways were purposefully routed through Black, Brown, and poor communities. These neighborhoods were destroyed, isolated from the rest of the city, or left to deteriorate over time.

Edited by Ryan Reft, Amanda Phillips de Lucas, and Rebecca Retzlaff, Justice and the Interstates examines the toll that the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System has taken on vulnerable communities over the past seven decades, details efforts to restore these often- segregated communities, and makes recommendations for moving forward. It opens up new areas for historical inquiry, while also calling on engineers, urban planners, transportation professionals, and policymakers to account for the legacies of their practices.

The chapters, written by diverse experts and thought leaders, look at different topics related to justice and the highway system, including:

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