Seventy years in the past, planners and politicians offered highways as progress, important to future prosperity. Right now, division, disinvestment, and harmful driving are identified to be the true results highways have on the communities round them.

Be a part of journalist Megan Kimble as she shares insights on the freeway combating motion from her new e-book, Metropolis Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Way forward for America’s Highways. Metropolis Limits explores what’s at stake in locations going through new freeway tasks, like Austin, Houston, and Dallas, and considers one other means ahead: what if we eliminated dividing highways altogether?

Webinar attendees will be taught concerning the following:

• How America’s ever-expanding highways speed up inequality and fracture communities.
• The work of group advocates to create extra livable cities and neighborhoods within the face of freeway expansions. 
• Locations the place eradicating highways has introduced new life to a divided communities.

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Be a part of us: Tuesday, Could seventh

2:00pm – 3:00pm, Japanese