“Urban highways, especially those built in the US in the 1950s and 1960s, were entirely geared towards car traffic,” explains co-author Anastassia Vybornova from the IT University of Copenhage ...

Protests against these new highways took place in cities throughout the nation. Have students write a letter, from the perspective of someone in the 1960s, to an elected official expressing their ...

Built in the 1960s, the highway cuts through Pasadena and interrupts several surrounding neighborhoods. Since its construction there has been a long and bitter battle over the interstate's fate.