
Infrastructure and Inequality
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Is There a Deep Connection With New Bridges?
There's a long history of kind of racist infrastructure right and we can think about the, I was listening to a talk of years earlier you were talking about the Hill District in in Pittsburgh. And lots of parts of the interstate highway system in the 50s and 60s were basically built through black neighborhoods. So definitely the reason the impetus for this research was because we know these legacies and we know these historical really rich stories that really analyzed rigorously what happened in these areas.
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