How Freeways Kill Communities

Timothy Lee bemoans the urban planning decisions made in St. Louis, and elsewhere:

Carving up St. Louis with freeways didn't just undermine individualneighborhoods, it permanently changed the region's culture. Byundermining walkable urban neighborhoods while simultaneously making iteasier to commute in from the suburbs, planners effected a massivetransfer of wealth from from cities to suburbs. It's not surprisingthat many people responded to these incentives by moving to thesuburbs. But it...