2021 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: Communities

Amplify: Design Agency and the Transportation Megaproject

Fall Conference Proceedings

Author(s): Katherine Polkinghorne & Susan Rogers

Transportation infrastructure projects are infamously complex and illegible. Freeway expansions in particular have a legacy of disregarding and displacing communities of color without substantial engagement. This legacy continues with the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP), which the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) unapologetically states “would cause disproportionately high and adverse impacts to minority and low-income populations.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AIA.Inter.21.11

Volume Editors
Rico Quirindongo & Georgeen Theodore

ISBN
978-1-944214-39-5