Planetizen Removing Urban Highways Can Improve Neighborhoods Blighted by Decades of Racist Policies Joan Fitzgerald, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University and Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
The Conversation Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policies Joan Fitzgerald Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University Many urban highways built in the 1950s and 1960s were deliberately run through neighborhoods occupied by Black families and other people of color, walling these communities off from jobs and opportunity.