{"product_id":"city-limits-infrastructure-inequality-and-the-future-of-americas-highways-hardcover","title":"City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMegan Kimble\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama.\"--Michael Harriot, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBlack AF History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCity Limits\u003c\/i\u003e, journalist Megan Kimble weaves together the origins of urban highways with the stories of ordinary people impacted by our failed transportation system. In Austin, hundreds of families will lose child care if a preschool is demolished to expand Interstate 35. In Houston, a young Black woman will lose her brand-new home to a new lane on Interstate 10--just blocks away from where a seventy-four-year-old nurse lost her home in the 1960s when that same highway was built. And in Dallas, an urban planner has improbably found himself at the center of a national conversation about highway removal. What if, instead of building our aging roads wider and higher, we removed those highways altogether? It's been done before, first in San Francisco and, more recently, in Rochester, where Kimble traces how highway removal has brought new life to a divided city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, \u003ci\u003eCity Limits\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the enormous social and environmental costs wrought by our allegiance to a life of increasing speed and dispersion, and brings to light the people who are fighting for a more sustainable, connected future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan Kimble\u003c\/b\u003e is an investigative journalist and the author of \u003ci\u003eUnprocessed\u003c\/i\u003e. A former executive editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Observer, \u003c\/i\u003e Kimble has written about housing, transportation, and urban development for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Texas Monthly, The Guardian, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBloomberg CityLab\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Austin, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.42 x 9.29 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44434737922150,"sku":"9780593443781","price":38.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/a66ouVoVSK9780593443781.webp?v=1770461455","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/city-limits-infrastructure-inequality-and-the-future-of-americas-highways-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}