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   David Zipper (davidzipper@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 22:13:38 JST David Zipper

   Seventy years ago, the writer Lewis Mumford warned that urban highways would be a disaster:

   “This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”

   He was right. We just didn’t listen.

   My homage, in Bloomberg CityLab:
   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/in-1955-lewis-mumford-saw-nyc-s-congestion-battle-coming?srnd=phx-citylab

   #cities #history #highways