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Episode 355: Asphalt - A History

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Isenhauer's Interstate Highways

The interstate highways were built to move troops around and evacuate cities in case of funeral clear attack. But they also cleared out working class white people who could now flee to the suburbs. The military industrial complex is a multi-faceted machine that was started early on with the good roads movement, and then continued through after the second world war.

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