Removing Freeways - Restoring Cities
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Preservation Institute
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Introduction:
Tear It Down!
by John Norquist
San Francisco, CA:
Embarcadero Freeway
San Francisco, CA:
Central Freeway
Milwaukee, WI:
Park East Freeway
Toronto, Ontario: Gardiner Expressway
New York, NY:
West Side Highway
Niagara Falls, NY:
Robert Moses Parkway
Paris, France:
Pompidou Expressway
Seoul, South Korea
Cheonggye Freeway
Freeway Removal
Plans and Proposals
Conclusion:
From Induced Demand
to Reduced Demand
by Charles Siegel
The Movement Has Begun
Demolishing San Francisco's Central Freeway
This site includes:
- The stories of freeway removals that have already been completed.
- Plans and Proposals for future freeway removals.
- "Tear It Down!" by John Norquist.
- "From Induced Demand to Reduced Demand" by Charles Siegel.
For more information about current battles to remove freeways, see the Congress for the New Urbanism's Highways to Boulevards page. And see the planetizen essay Removing Urban Freeways by Charles Siegel.
If you have any information about freeway removals or any "before" pictures of freeways that have already been removed, please contact us at webpages@preservenet.com.
Photograph copyright 2007 by Charles Siegel