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> They found that between 1950 and 2010 highways slowed growth in income, population, and land values in city centers, while having the opposite effect in outlying areas.
>Highways also contributed to air and noise pollution, and reduced access between neighborhoods split by freeways. Lin said the decline in quality of life “was an important factor in pushing people out of cities in the ’50s, ’60s and beyond.”
>Lin and Brinkman propose that projects that bury or cap highways could be beneficial to city centers, especially in reducing the “barrier effects” that cut neighborhoods off from one another.
http://planphilly.com/articles/2019/07/09/philly-fed-economists-here-s-how-highways-ruined-your-city
Paper from said economist:
https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/research-and-data/publications/working-papers/2019/wp19-29.pdf
>Highways also contributed to air and noise pollution, and reduced access between neighborhoods split by freeways. Lin said the decline in quality of life “was an important factor in pushing people out of cities in the ’50s, ’60s and beyond.”
>Lin and Brinkman propose that projects that bury or cap highways could be beneficial to city centers, especially in reducing the “barrier effects” that cut neighborhoods off from one another.
http://planphilly.com/articles/2019/07/09/philly-fed-economists-here-s-how-highways-ruined-your-city
Paper from said economist:
https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/research-and-data/publications/working-papers/2019/wp19-29.pdf
