of asthma, lung disease, heart disease, and cancer. If we dig into New York City’s history of big roads to the time when Robert Moses was still in college, you’ll come across Madison Grant. Grant was not a traffic engineer, but he was behind the construction of the Bronx River Parkway that opened in 1908. The parkway was sold to the public as an “environmental improvement,” but soon thereafter, Grant published a book called The Passing of the Great Race that became one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite books. What happened next? As L. J. Aurbach explains, “Grant became an internationally known leader
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