Washington DC (CNN)The Department of Transport was injured by the highwayon Thursday.
Urban experts say investment is inferior compared to the long-term adverse effects of urban highways, but the benefits of human-centered urban design that can inspire more projects. We welcome funding as a way to show.
"Reconnecting is a very good thing," said Mindy Flab, a professor of urban policy and health at New School, who studied how highways divide cities. .. "This is part of a larger strategy to make our city what we need. It's an important and functional place for people to cross the road and get to know each other."
When the interstate highway system was funded in 1956, car-centric life, including highways, became the center of American culture.
President Eisenhower, who signed the law, saw in World War II II A highway built and impressed by Hitler in Germany. However, the United States broke the typical European design and built highways through the city rather than around it. As the suburbs and vast developments became more popular, highways were often advertised as essential to save the city's central business district. Many White Americans have eliminated Black Americans and fled the city because of the new suburbs that depended on the highway for access to the city.
Peopledon't like traveling in the vast, desolate open spaces created by highways, Fullilove told CNN Business. She said that as the freeway passes through the neighborhood, neighbors often stop moving to the other side of the freeway.
Fullilove estimates that thousands of communities are divided by the construction of highways. The amount of damage depends on the city. The infamous New York architect Robert Moses has expelled 250,000 New Yorkers to build a highway, his biographer Robert Caro wrote.
"There was a very large and dramatic attack on the poor community," Fullilove said.
The new funds can be used to plan grants to study remedies such as blocking highways. This leaves the opportunity for traffic to flow underground and create a comfortable area above with easy-to-walk tree-lined roads. Atlanta is currently considering a highway capping project. Other possible uses of the fund include the construction of a city walkway called the Greenway, or a bus highway project, according to Stephanie Pollack, Deputy Director of the Federal Highway Authority.
"What are you going to do?" Marvin Roger Anderson, who lived in Rondo, remembered what his father said in the 1950s after his home was blamed. .. Anderson said he recently built a house in the neighborhood as his father retired. He said his parents had moved out of the city to subdivided lands by black owners to accommodate the families of refugees. Anderson said his father was never the same.
The ReConnect Rondo plan calls for the construction of a 22-acre overpass on the highway, allowing the reconstruction of traditional urban suburbs such as homes and retail stores. The cost of the project is estimated at $ 458.9 million. Nonprofits apply for funding to further plan their projects.
Planning grants are offered between $ 100,000 and $ 2 million. Capital construction funds range from $ 5 million to $ 100 million and can cover up to 50% of the cost.
"The federal government that played the role of taking [Rondo] back should bring us back and start on the right path," Anderson said.