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7 Cities Consider Removing Major Urban Highways

  • 1.  7 Cities Consider Removing Major Urban Highways

    Posted 04-19-2011 08:18 AM
    Thought I would share this article via ULI from Architect's Newspaper.

    "Decades after urban renewal programs first put up highways, most city planners now realize that highways drain vitality from healthy neighborhoods and lower property values. San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway and Central Freeway are two poster children for how highway removal can rejuvenate neighborhoods. The collapse of the Miller Highway in New York also made way for what's now West Street and Hudson River Park."

    http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/15457

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