03177cam a2200385 i 4500 1265049946 TxAuBib 20240503120000.0 230817s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023034296 9780593443781 hardcover 0593443780 hardcover (OCoLC)1394064365 TxAuBib rda Kimble, Megan, author. City limits : infrastructure, inequality, and the future of America's highways / Megan Kimble. First edition. New York : Crown, [2024] ©2024. xii, 340 pages : maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our future prosperity. The automobile promised freedom, and highways were going to take us there. Instead, they divided cities, displaced people from their homes, chained us to our cars, and locked us into a high-emissions future. And the more highways we built, the worse traffic got. Nowhere is this more visible than in Texas. In Houston, Dallas, and Austin, residents and activists are fighting against massive, multi-billion-dollar highway expansions that will claim thousands of homes and businesses, entrenching segregation and sprawl. In City Limits, journalist Megan Kimble weaves together the origins of urban highways with the stories of ordinary people impacted by our failed transportation system. In Austin, hundreds of families will lose childcare if a preschool is demolished to make way for Interstate 35. In Houston, a young Black woman will lose her brand-new home for a new lane on Interstate 10-just blocks away from where a seventy-four-year-old nurse lost her home in the 1960s when that same highway was built. And in Dallas, an urban planner has improbably found himself at the center of a national conversation about highway removal. What if, instead of building our aging roads wider and higher, we removed those highways altogether? It's been done before, first in San Francisco, and more recently, in Rochester, where Kimble traces how highway removal has brought new life to a divided city. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, City Limits exposes the enormous social and environmental costs wrought by our allegiance to a life of increasing speed and dispersion, and brings to light the people who are fighting for a more sustainable, connected future"-- Provided by publisher. 20240503. Transportation United States Planning. Express highways United States. Cities and towns Growth Environmental aspects. Cities and towns Growth Social aspects. Roads Location Environmental aspects. Informational works. Case studies. TXBRI