Audio Books →City Limits Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0CDD3QZ4X | 2024 | 10 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Megan Kimble
Narrator: Megan Kimble
An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities-and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward. 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.