Strong Towns | Why Does The U.S. Destroy Its Cities For Highways? @strongtowns | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
What would you do if you created your forever home, and then the government decided to run a highway right through your living room?
Join a Local Conversation to find others wanting to end highway expansion: strongtowns.org/local
Check out this 4 Freeway Fighting Tactics webinar:
academy.strongtowns.org/p/lm-2023-freeways
Join our email list to stay updated on our ending highway expansions campaign: strongtowns.org/email
Come to our national gathering: gathering.strongtowns.org
Featured in this video:
Highway Boondoggles 2023 report: strongtowns.org/journal/2023/11/9/3-of-the-worst-highway-expansion-projects-singled-out-by-the-highway-boondoggles-report
Follow Segregation by Design on Instagram: instagram.com/segregation_by_design
Directed, Edited, and Filmed by Mike Pasternock
Story Produced By Seairra Jones
Research By Seairra Jones and Mike Pasternock
Research: docs.google.com/document/d/1mRAWO9TXKFLxnEV-DhXeHc2j-2v5FcDzhk9RNCIf4lk/edit?usp=sharing
00:00 Introduction
01:51 Warm up, the bulldozer, Rob
04:37 Shreveport's Big Boondoggle
06:15 Is this... necessary?
07:12 Time ≠ Money
08:37 Spending For Shiny New Stuff
10:00 Cherry-picked study
12:02 Solving Imaginary Problems
13:27 Highway Sword of Damocles
16:30 Put the Zombie down
18:18 National Gathering!
What would you do if you created your forever home, and then the government decided to run a highway right through your living room?
Join a Local Conversation to find others wanting to end highway expansion: strongtowns.org/local
Check out this 4 Freeway Fighting Tactics webinar:
academy.strongtowns.org/p/lm-2023-freeways
Join our email list to stay updated on our ending highway expansions campaign: strongtowns.org/email
Come to our national gathering: gathering.strongtowns.org
Featured in this video:
Highway Boondoggles 2023 report: strongtowns.org/journal/2023/11/9/3-of-the-worst-highway-expansion-projects-singled-out-by-the-highway-boondoggles-report
Follow Segregation by Design on Instagram: instagram.com/segregation_by_design
Directed, Edited, and Filmed by Mike Pasternock
Story Produced By Seairra Jones
Research By Seairra Jones and Mike Pasternock
Research: docs.google.com/document/d/1mRAWO9TXKFLxnEV-DhXeHc2j-2v5FcDzhk9RNCIf4lk/edit?usp=sharing
00:00 Introduction
01:51 Warm up, the bulldozer, Rob
04:37 Shreveport's Big Boondoggle
06:15 Is this... necessary?
07:12 Time ≠ Money
08:37 Spending For Shiny New Stuff
10:00 Cherry-picked study
12:02 Solving Imaginary Problems
13:27 Highway Sword of Damocles
16:30 Put the Zombie down
18:18 National Gathering!
