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How to Reconnect Black Communities Torn Apart by Highways
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Anne Helen Petersen
@annehelen
Just an incredible visualization of the way freeway construction tore through Black urban communities — and the efforts to combat further destruction:
How to Reconnect Black Communities Torn Apart by Highways
Decades after the U.S. highway boom destroyed many thriving Black neighborhoods, cities are exploring a different kind of urban future that might re-knit communities.
bloomberg.com
8:05 PM · Aug 25, 2021
Anne Helen Petersen
@annehelen
Just an incredible visualization of the way freeway construction tore through Black urban communities — and the efforts to combat further destruction:
How to Reconnect Black Communities Torn Apart by Highways
Decades after the U.S. highway boom destroyed many thriving Black neighborhoods, cities are exploring a different kind of urban future that might re-knit communities.
bloomberg.com
8:05 PM · Aug 25, 2021
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-urban-highways-infrastructure-racism/
