Planning for Cars in Cities – Planners, Engineers, and Freeways in the 20th Century (18 page pdf, Jeffrey R. Brown, Eric A. Morris, and Brian D. Taylor, Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 75, No. 2, Spring 2009)
Today’s review article describes the development of major roads in cities, how and why they evolved from the original concepts for urban planning 100 years ago with examples from Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston, through the introduction of the national interstate highway system and ending with the state of roads in most cities today- which seem deem as “traffic sewers” but others call urban freeways.
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