David Zipper<p>Seventy years ago, the writer Lewis Mumford warned that urban highways would be a disaster:</p><p>“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”</p><p>He was right. We just didn’t listen.</p><p>My homage, in Bloomberg CityLab:<br><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/in-1955-lewis-mumford-saw-nyc-s-congestion-battle-coming?srnd=phx-citylab" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/news/articles/20</span><span class="invisible">25-03-14/in-1955-lewis-mumford-saw-nyc-s-congestion-battle-coming?srnd=phx-citylab</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/highways" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>highways</span></a></p>