 “The
motive forces in this reconstruction were the multibillion-dollar
Federal Highway Program and the vast suburban housing initiatives
of the Federal Housing Administration. This new order integrated
the whole nation into a unified flow whose lifeblood was the automobile.
It conceived of cities principally as obstructions to the flow of
traffic, and as junkyards of substandard housing and decaying neighborhoods
from which Americans should be given every chance to escape. Thousands
of urban neighborhoods were obliterated….”
-- Marshall Berman, All That
Is Solid Melts Into Air |
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