In the pump of the Twentieth Century novel highways were driven through a large lay out of American cities, ruining the graphic symbol of many neighborhoods for ever.
The Institute for Quality Communities at the University of Oklahoma has lay together a serial of historical as well as modern aerial images to present the touching on of mid-Twentieth Century urban renewal on American cities. 60 Years of Urban Change allows you lot to compare historical aerial images of a lay out of America's biggest cities amongst aerial imagery of the same areas, showing how they await today.
By comparison the modern as well as historical aerial imagery it is possible to run across the touching on of the mid-century construction smash on many of these cities. New highways, parking lots, housing projects as well as mega-structures were built at the expense of modest lots of integrated streets as well as tight communities.
Hopefully inwards about other lx years the University of Oklahoma volition live on able to repeat the do to present how much cities bring improved thank you lot to the replacement of inner-city highways amongst vast networks of wheel paths.
