[Youtube Review][Vox] How highways wrecked American cities

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Playtime Comments : [Vox] How highways wrecked American cities

Jo*****:

3:00 they used Detroit as an example? I'm pretty sure detroit has large grass plots for other reasons than road construction

Ja*********:

2:12, That interchange is in San Diego connecting with Route 209 (No longer exists), Route 8, and route 5

Al*******:

1:07 And that design did exactly the opposite

L*:

At 2:30 thy mention people moving to suburbs. Near my home, they built a racetrack in 1958. It closed in 1968 because so many accidents happened and people in the stands were killed by crashes, and the town couldn’t pay for it anymore. Weird... I is a park now, and where the track was, it became a walking path, all of it. It’s in Illinois.

Ro**********:

2:20 - 3:52

Sw****:

4:20 That "42 hours" seems a little fast to me. Even if you don't include the necessity of rest and sleeping.

Kn*****************:

Okay, I busted out laughing at 2:21 Omg, that was funny as hell.

In*******************:

Half the highways on the DC map at 1:34 don't even exist. They were just part of the original highway plan but were never built

Ro******:

2:51 .... probably people received peanuts for their real estate expropriation

 

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Top Comments : [Vox] How highways wrecked American cities

Ol*********:

Poor Atlanta…

Pl*******:

The moral is-in Cities Skylines, build your roads and highways FIRST and then zone the place!

ro****:

imagine having highways running through your own city, love from vancouver <3

TG****:

Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul, MN.

Ca*****:

In Vancouver in the 60s they were going to build a highway through the poor downtown eastside and Chinatown. People protested there and the highway was was never built.

Se**********:

This is why urban planning needs to take the people in mind, not the cars.

Di**********************:

“We’re calling it, a Freeway.”

Da**********:

This is one of the best videos on the history of urban renewal and highways that I have ever seen; thank you endlessly, Vox <3

Sh**************:

Fun fact, when automobiles first appeared on roads of course they had to share them with pedestrians, horse and carts etc. , after a spate of car's running over pedestrians the car industry ran a campaign to vilify pedestrians for been reckless on the roads they had used to walk on for thousands of years, guess who won.

Th*******:

Great video. In Koblenz (Germany) we have the same problem. A major highway cuts through the city and you have traffic jams almost every day. I think a lot of the traffic could be removed by improving and subsidizing public transport.

An********:

As an Architect and urbanist all I have to say is THANK YOU vox. This is such an important topic that all citizens have to know about to urge for better cities and better urban life. Excellent video, keep it up

D:

The Autobahn in Germany goes around the cities. We have "Stadt-Autobahnen" wich go in circle around a city and lead to other Autobahn connecting the cities. Same in France and Britain and basically all of Europe. I think its a shame that beautiful american cities get destroyed by highways and new buildings. I saw a video about how stunning Los Angeles was and how it looks now. Actually really sad.

De*****:

Car companies after inventing highways : stonks

Se*******:

Brilliant video. Would love to see more on the subject- how about something on traffic engineering? Thanks

El*******:

Exactly, so many cities like Detroit and Baltimore are destroyed and yet the Americans are paying attention to rebuild other countries....

qw************:

Germany had good highways but they also have modern high speed rail and their cities are not contested in traffic

Is************:

Detroit is your example for it??!! LOLOL

EVERYWHERE in Detroit is essentially an empy grass plot...

Co***********:

Car travel is incredibly inefficient in dense areas. You can never build enough highways to completely eliminate congestion above a certain density. The problem was that the auto industry wanted to convert previously established cities where travel was based around walking and streetcars into cities where travel was entirely based around car travel, and largely they succeeded. The only US city with a car ownership rate below 50 percent is NYC. NYC was almost entirely designed and built around its extensive subway system, and there was no way to try and reverse it because of how ingrained it was in how the city functioned.

The auto industry promoted suburbanization initially, because they knew it was going to raise the car ownership rate, putting more money into their pockets. They endlessly lobbied the government to support development in that way and tried to portray it as "the best way to live" and a symbol of status. They succeeded in getting most people to think that way, and it sort of just perpetuated to today. Try and find any scientific evidence that raising children in a closed off McMansion where they rarely are out in public and see the outside world is better than being in a city.

Ja*************:

Vox uses one of the best video formats I don't know from where do they collect these really old videos from

Ja*********:

I first hear about National Highway Users Conference and the building of Americas roads when I recently watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit, believe it or not. Very interesting history about the building of modern America, the removal of streetcars and hidden agendas and what not. Great vid, to the point and all.

Si***********:

As much as my mom complains about Robert Moses while driving though NYC, i was fully expecting him to get a mention here :-) i have to listen to a version of this video every single time she drives around the city...

KE*****:

Just throwing this out there: the interstate highways are formally known as the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. With an inflation-adjusted construction cost estimated to be just over $500bn, the 48,000 mile highway system cost less to build in the 60 years since its inception, than one year of defense spending, and around 1/3 of the projected cost of the Joint Strike Fighter program alone.

Th**********:

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Cross Bronx Expressway cutting through the Bronx. Perfect example of a highway completely destroying several neighborhoods.

To******:

We’re simply not a forward thinking society. In 75 years, they’ll be critical of the decisions made today.

Ke*****:

And today they're all crowded and always under construction

St**************:

My mom told me and showed me pictures of how pretty the city use to be before the "urban renewal" took place.
Its to bad : /

Bo****:

This is a tough one: I live in Vancouver, where there is no highway that passes through Downtown. I know a lot of people who live out in the suburbs avoid going to DT Vancouver because it would take so long to get in and out due to lack of a highway. Obviously there’s no easy right or wrong answer to something like a highway system, just a collection of benefits and drawbacks.

ch**********:

This is a very important video. Thanks.

Al**********:

My first childhood home was 420 Tahoe St., Rialto, Ca. You can search it now and find it dead center of a freeway. The city destroyed my home and the entire neighborhood in the mid-1980's to build a freeway. This was a poorer, mostly white neighborhood, and no one was happy about the news. It led to my mother buying a house they couldn't afford, and when she realized her blunder, she took me and left my father. The divorce and subsequent bankruptcy destroyed him and he escaped into heavy drug use, which he served prison time for. My life got worse from the divorce onward until I ended up on the streets and then into foster care. Did it all happen because of the freeway? No, but it certainly was a catalyst for some major and awful changes to my family. Had we stayed, I know life would be very different in some way. I never thought about it until now, seeing this. Displacing poor families rarely leads to good things.

ph**********:

This is basically the story of the South Bronx. The Cross Bronx Expressway could have followed a different course that took it through more industrial sections but it basically went right through integrated historic neighborhoods because nobody gave a crap about the residents there....And yeah, many of them were non-white. The moniker of "Urban Renewal" has always had a tinge of either "Minority Removal" or "Integrated Neighborhood Removal" to it. James Baldwin gave a really good talk on this and it was heartbreaking.

Na********:

I remember a time, not so long ago, that when you drove around the city you live in you took the surface streets.  Here in central Indiana they built the loop interstate around our capital city Indianapolis.  And everybody who lived in this loop is now considered living in the inner city.  No one within the boundary is considered living in the suburbs - it's been designated inner city.  And because it's the "inner city" we don't get the shopping, restaurants, or anything like outside the interstate loop - it's an artificial boundary.  Even when the weather people tells us about rain or snow storms they always mention that it won't hit south of I-70 or it's going to hit north of I-70.  It's a highway not a mountain or river that very well could influence the weather pattern.  It's laughable.  We don't get our streets paved the same way, our schools are ignored and we have areas where there aren't any grocery stores now.  Our city government pretty much planned this but we can't understand why.  Most of us within this area consider ourselves middle class but now we live in the inner city which  a negative overtone.  This affects taxes and home values.

 

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