Part of President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to promote racial equity. Professor Deborah Archer says highway planners in the mid-20th century sometimes purposefully destroyed Black communities.

In 1956, the U.S. Congress passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, the $25 billion program that launched the Interstate Highway System. The law, which encouraged highway construction across the ...

At a glance, it is obvious that the eventual design of today’s Interstate 95 and Interstate 10 were settled as early as 1946, a decade before passage of the Federal Interstate Highway Act of 1956.

Luckily for city planners who wanted to keep their cities healthy, there was federal money available to anyone who wanted to put in modern highways. While the 1944 Federal Highway Act only offered ...

In truth, planners knew from the beginning that the interstates threatened communities of color living in urban areas. In 1958, for example, the Sagamore Conference — convened by the Highway ...

The editors explain the mechanisms used in concert with the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, including federal, state, and local housing legislation, that limited housing and economic ...

Over the last year, Buttigieg has crossed the country visiting cities where the Biden administration is funneling federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act dollars to deck over expressways and ...

A ring of 1960s-era highways encircles downtown Houston, dividing nearby neighborhoods along racial lines and separating them from the city’s urban core. Instead of pursuing ways to connect the ...

The Inflation Reduction Act, which allocates nearly $370 billion in spending and tax credits to fight climate change, includes $3 billion to support highway removal.

They used those funds to shoot highways through Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal. Highway planners in the 1960s intentionally drove the I-75/I-85 Connector through Buttermilk ...

Most funding was from the 1956 Federal Highway Act. The county's first superhighway was built in 1957-60 at a cost of $43 million. News Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion Advertise Obituaries ...

The Urban Renewal Act 2024 seeks to lower the threshold of strata owners’ consent to 80% for properties under 30 years old, ...