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A Bolder Vision of Highway Removal for Detroit

A Bolder Vision of Highway Removal for Detroit

by Paul Jones III Detroit has an incredible opportunity to reduce the impact of highways on our urban fabric.  Our highways are some of the worst examples in the nation of racist, mid-century urban planning practices, and removing them has been a topic of interest in transportation, planning, and racial justice circles for decades. As more cities start to make decisions that recognize the…

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Internally, inter- and intra-state migrant labour could add up to 37% of the Indian population. A more conservative figure: They are 20% of the workforce (Economic Survey 2016). Last year, Azim Premji Institute estimated 29% of any Indian city’s force are daily-wagers, earning as low as Rs 2,000 a month or a max of Rs 20,000. Most live in 10x10 feet houses, four-six people crammed into each such unit, with basic civic amenities either absent or stolen or improvised. Can you, in India, think of any place that offers decent living quarters with regular amenities to migrant labour—those who build our expressways, our malls, our Koramangalas and Cyber Hubs? The thought hasn’t even occurred to you.

Santwana Bhattacharya, 'Between the Taj Mahal and the worker’s hovel', New Indian Express

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Montreal Ditches an Elevated Highway

Where the Bonaventure Expressway once furthered Griffintown's isolation and blight, public art and greenspace now welcome pedestrians and mo

“Where a concrete overpass once loomed now stand hundreds of saplings, about five football fields’ worth of public green space, thousands of perennials and shrubs, rain gardens, exercise equipment, a fenced-in children’s play area, two large pieces of public art, seven ground-level traffic lanes for cars, and two dedicated bus lanes.”

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Tangled Interchanges

Jakarta, Indonesia

National Route 1・Jalan Tol Lingkar Luar Jakarta

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Blinded by the light

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Expressways in Nihombashi Tokyo

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Ikebukuro by B Lucava

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Tangled Interchanges

Perth, Australia

State Route 4・State Route 7 / Airport Drive