transportation

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  3/10/2023
  

  Houston's Highway History Teaches Planners What Not to Do

  by Kyle Shelton

  Transportation planners have begun to collect the opinions of community residents affected by proposed highway projects, but they have yet to begin to meaningfully incorporate those concerns into planning. Doing so could prevent repeating the blighting effects of urban transporation projects.

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• 2/26/2023
  

  What Airports Can Tell Us About Histories of Regional Development

  by Eric Porter

  From the perspective of travelers, airports appear as generic "non-places." But for people who aren't just passing through—entrepreneurs, activists, and especially workers—their particularity makes them sites of struggle that shape the life of a region. Historians have much to learn from them, too. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/19/2023
  

  The Romance of the Highway Obscures Harm to Communities of Color

  by Ryan Reft

  Secretary Pete Buttigieg's comments that interstate construction entrenched racial segregation were denounced as "woke" by critics. But history shows that highway planners knew that such consequences were likely to ensue, and proceeded anyway. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/2/2022
  

  The Ideology of the Bicycle

  The bicycle since its invention has found itself at the center of debates about who public space is for. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  12/13/2021
  

  Preservationists Want to Save Penn Station. Yes, That Penn Station.

  by Kriston Capps

  The one thing every New Yorker can agree on is that Penn Station is terrible. Why is this benighted hellhole being championed for historic preservation? 

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• 11/7/2021
  

  Tom Standage on his Brief History of Motion

  by James Thornton Harris

  Author Tom Standage discusses his history of personal transportation, the future of private automobile ownership, and the power of technology as a driver of history.

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• SOURCE: Car and Driver
  4/25/2021
  

  Author Mia Bay Talks About Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

  Mia Bay's new book examines how the forces of Black freedom and White supremacy collided over freedom of movement. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  4/19/2021
  

  Right In The Way: Generations Of Highway Impacts In Houston

  by Kyle Shelton

  Houston's characteristic sprawl is enabled by continually expanding highways, which historically and today run through Black and Latino communities. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  4/5/2021
  

  The Myth And The Truth About Interstate Highways

  by Sarah Jo Peterson

  A historian with experience in transportation planning takes a close look at the way that canonical texts in the highway planning field have erased the politics of road building and the way that the interstate highway system was always tied to urban land use planning and urban renewal. 

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• SOURCE: Blooberg CityLab
  10/21/2020
  

  In a Land of Cul-de-Sacs, the Street Grid Stages a Comeback

  Land use planners in unlikely places-the Texas suburbs--are revisiting the idea of gridded street plans as solutions for car dependence and traffic. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  8/5/2020
  

  The Forgotten History of How Accessible Design Reshaped the Streets

  Long before the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 mandated curb cuts at all street corners, 30 years ago this summer, disabled people had pointed to the design of the street as a key locus of their political rights — the sidewalk that stands for being in public space, and therefore in the public sphere.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  4/22/2020
  

  Justice In Movement

  by Genevieve Carpio

  History should challenge us to think about transportation not only in terms of moving people, but of distributing the costs and benefits of mobility equitably.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/8/19
  

  Why we need to address the demands of striking ride-hailing service drivers

  by Mary Angelica Painter

  History tells us that ignoring these grievances could lead to catastrophic consequences.