• Meet the nominees for CNU's 2023 Freeways Without Futures report

    The ten campaigns selected for the 2023 Freeways Without Futures report offer a roadmap to the future of North American infrastructure
    The 2023 Freeways Without Futures report from the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) will feature ten local campaigns representing communities advocating for equity and reconnection during a time of reckoning for North American urban freeway infrastructure. The ten campaigns offer a roadmap to...Read more

  • Atlanta’s Downtown Connector: Bury it or demolish it?

    To mitigate this scar on Atlanta’s urban fabric, two freeway cap proposals are being pushed by local business groups.
    In 1952 the first section of an expressway that would split the heart of Atlanta opened. It was designed in the 1940s to connect the growing suburbs to the north with those in the south, while providing a fast way around congested streets in bustling districts like Five Points. Eventually, it would...Read more

  • Historic chance to remove highway barrier, reconnect community

    The terminus of I-16 cuts into the historic core of Savannah, and removal of a flyover would help to heal the wounds of 1960s destruction in a minority and immigrant neighborhood.
    An enormous flyover ramp near the eastern terminus of Interstate 16 in Georgia has divided and damaged a neighborhood in Savannah's historic district for six decades. Removing this interchange would provide many benefits: Reconnecting the neighborhood; healing the wounds of urban renewal in a...Read more

  • To heal highway harms, Buttigieg needs bold thinking

    Entrenched state departments of transportation dedicated to highway building threaten to capture Reconnecting Communities grant funds to continue harm — not undo it.
    Note: This article first appeared in Streetsblog . In 1966, the day after Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana Department of Highways bulldozers came for Claiborne Avenue’s century-old oak trees. Just a day before, Black New Orleanians celebrated Mardi Gras among the oaks. Claiborne Avenue’s 100-...Read more