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Roads pollute cities, eat up public space and fragment habitats. Could moving them underground help?
13 de sept. de 2018 · Given the saturation of existing metropolitan spaces, underground roads could be the perfect solution for future urban transportation problems. Going Underground 55% of the world’s population live in urban areas, a figure that is expected to grow to 68% by 2050, says a recent UN report.
1 de may. de 2016 · These giant elevated structures through down-town areas are now seen as unsightly, noisy, possibly unsafe, and provide only limited access to areas adjacent to the freeway. Many cities are considering or in the process to replace the elevated highways by urban road tunnels.
From old & forgotten tunnels to today’s communities & public places, here are our top pick of U.S. cities with underground tunnel systems.
14 de abr. de 2020 · But other cities have removed their highways entirely or relocated them underground, which repairs divided neighborhoods and opens new vistas. San Francisco’s Octavia Boulevard, completed in 2003, replaced the former Central Freeway, damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
This chapter traces the evolution of urban underground space and illustrates how the progressive and piecemeal development of underground space poses significantly more restrictions on future development than in the cases of surface facilities and infrastructure development.
2 de jun. de 2021 · A leading advocacy group is calling for the removal of 15 urban highways built on land from which millions of Black, Latinx and indigenous residents were forcibly displaced — land that includes the site of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, which displaced thousands of Black Oklahomans just decades before a highway destroyed the ...
