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Choosing the Route: How Interstate Highways Were Driven Through City Centers
The Debates, Data, and Blind Spots of 1950s Planners

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Choosing the Route: How Interstate Highways Were Driven Through City Centers Uncover the hidden battles that shaped America’s cityscapes in *Choosing the Route: How Interstate Highways Were Driven Through City Centers*. This meticulously researched history reveals how postwar planners, armed with nascent traffic models and a zeal for modernization, chose to carve massive highways through the hearts of our urban neighborhoods—prioritizing automobiles over people, transit, and equity.

Through vivid archival detail, the book exposes the flawed science, technocratic optimism, and deep‑seated racial and economic biases that turned thriving minority districts into concrete trenches, leaving a legacy of segregation and disinvestment that still echoes today.

For anyone interested in urban planning, social justice, or the untold stories behind the roads we drive every day, *Choosing the Route* offers both a cautionary tale and a vital framework for building more equitable infrastructures in the era of renewed federal investment. Dive in and see how the decisions of the 1950s continue to steer the future of our cities.

Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Postwar Urban Imperative: Automating the American City
  • Chapter 2 The 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act: Funding the Vision
  • Chapter 3 Origin-Destination Studies: The Flawed Science of 1950s Traffic Modeling
  • Chapter 4 The Logic of "Blight": How Urban Renewal Merged with Highway Planning
  • Chapter 5 The Bypass Debate: Why Planners Chose the City Center
  • Chapter 6 Technocracy and Bureaucracy: The Power of State Highway Departments
  • Chapter 7 Path of Least Resistance: Land Values and Route Selection
  • Chapter 8 Mapping Inequity: The Racial Bias of Highway Alignments
  • Chapter 9 Blind to Transit: The Deliberate Marginalization of Public Transportation
  • Chapter 10 The
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Bradley K. Fisher

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