Highways To Hell

In the nub of the Twentieth Century novel highways were driven through a large set out of American cities, ruining the grapheme of many neighborhoods for ever.

The Institute for Quality Communities at the University of Oklahoma has set together a serial of historical in addition to modern aerial images to exhibit the acquit upon of mid-Twentieth Century urban renewal on American cities. 60 Years of Urban Change allows you lot to compare historical aerial images of a set out of America's biggest cities amongst aerial imagery of the same areas, showing how they hold off today.

By comparison the modern in addition to historical aerial imagery it is possible to come across the acquit upon of the mid-century construction smash on many of these cities. New highways, parking lots, housing projects in addition to mega-structures were built at the expense of modest lots of integrated streets in addition to tight communities.

Hopefully inwards roughly other threescore years the University of Oklahoma volition hold out able to repeat the practise to exhibit how much cities bring improved thank you lot to the replacement of inner-city highways amongst vast networks of bike paths.