Explore the racial injustices of the interstate highway system in the book Justice and the Interstates. Learn how it still impacts transportation today.
Last year, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg unveiled new efforts to address the problematic racial legacy of interstate highway construction, dedicating $1 billion to “reconnect cities and…
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The Foundational Myth of America s Interstate Highway System
The erroneous belief that the negative impacts of interstate highways are simply unintended consequences fails to demand accountability for the project s failures. April 14, 2021, 9am PDT | Diana Ionescu |
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Remote work is overrated, and cities will be back:
Jerusalem Demsas interviews
Enico Moretti, a labor and urban economics researcher at UC Berkeley, about his assertion that people won’t be working fully remotely in the long run. Moretti states that remote work will not be gutting urban centers because the economy creates dense clusters of high productivity workers, and this agglomeration trend will bounce back after the pandemic has subsided. (Jerusalem Demasas | Vox)
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Remote work is overrated and cities will be back: Jerusalem Demsas interviews Enico Moretti, a labor and urban economics researcher at UC Berkeley, about his assertion that people won’t be working fully remotely in the long run. Moretti says that remote work won’t gut urban centers because the economy creates dense clusters of high productivity workers, and this agglomeration trend will bounce back after the pandemic has subsided. (Jerusalem Demasas | Vox)