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Student: Bryce Cox
Advisor: Scott Shall
Content Experts: Joongsub Kim , Kristen Dean
The United States interstate highway system is an incredible feat of urban planning, engineering, and common direction of movement within the federal government. By the 1960s this highway system spanned the entire continental United States, implemented using an awesome amount of resources and labor. This same highway system was also a vehicle for the continuation of 20th century segregation practices, veiled as beneficial United States infrastructure. These highways were utilized as a means of physical segregation, ripping through urban neighborhoods, facilitating “white flight”, and creating impassable physical barriers within urban centers. An act of redlining under the guise of federally sponsored infrastructure. Today, the spaces adjacent to these highways re still reeling from the effects of their installation in the late 1950s and 60s. To this day urban fabrics remain torn and noise polluted neighborhoods slowly retreat from highway edges, leaving only vacant lots and disinvestment behind.
Due to the massive spatial investment required by these highways, there exists countless miles of byproduct land in the form of easements, embankments, walls, and berms flanking nearly every single mile of American highways. In urban applications, these throwaway lots can be reclaimed and used to repair the fabrics once disrupted by the highways. By utilizing the leftover space created from the installation of urban highways, a flexible architecture-as-infrastructure can be installed to create bespoke edge conditions and begin to repair social, urban, and economic fabrics of negatively affected highway-adjacent spaces. Current legislation provides a catalyst to begin truly examining the effects of the urban highway and how it can be harmful to both human and urban health. A humanist architecture built to manage the highway conditions should also be able to more meaningfully benefit its opposite constituencies, providing a universal tactic for beneficial change that is mountable wherever highways run.
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