{"id":5543,"date":"2011-03-06T14:40:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T21:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2011-03-06T14:40:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T21:40:25","slug":"csmonitor-downtown-need-a-makeover-more-cities-are-razing-urban-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=5543","title":{"rendered":"CSMonitor | Downtown need a makeover? More cities are razing urban highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2011\/0302\/Downtown-need-a-makeover-More-cities-are-razing-urban-highways\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/0221-ARAZE-HIGHWAY-RELOCATION_full_380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For people who live and work around [urban highways], they always had huge negative side effects: They broke up the urban fabric, were noisy, and divided cities,&#8221; says Ted Shelton, a professor of architecture at the University of Tennessee who has studied urban highway removal. Removing roadways presents an opportunity for wiser, gentler redevelopment that can \u2013 if all goes well \u2013 add vibrancy and livability to areas around city centers.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at the Christian Science Monitor:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2011\/0302\/Downtown-need-a-makeover-More-cities-are-razing-urban-highways\">Downtown need a makeover? More cities are razing urban highways.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For people who live and work around [urban highways], they always had huge negative side effects: They broke up the urban fabric, were noisy, and divided cities,&#8221; says Ted Shelton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":5544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[25,146],"class_list":["post-5543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-transportation","tag-urban-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5549,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/5549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}