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Episode 575: Megan Kimble

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of The Texas Observer and has written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The Guardian. Her new book is City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways. “I have never lived in a city that was not wrapped in highways. It’s hard for me to imagine anything else. And I think that’s true for a lot of people today. ... [But] we have known since the origins of the interstate highways program that building highways through cities doesn’t fix traffic. And yet we keep doing it. To me, that really fueled a lot of the book. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.” Show notes: @megankimble megankimble.com Kimble on Longform Kimble’s Texas Observer archive 11:00 Kimble’s Austin Monthly archive 13:00 “Austin’s Not-So-Fair Housing Market” (Austin Monthly • Sept 2018) 49:00 “The Road Home” (Texas Observer • July 2021) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello Max. Hey Max, what have you got for us this week? You guys this week I talked to Megan Kimball who wrote a book it just came out yesterday April 2nd it's called City Limits, Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways.

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This book is about Urban Highways, three of them in Texas, Dallas, Houston, and Austin. All three of these highways are being expanded in these

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cities. They're being made wider, which means taking people's homes, it means closing

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schools and churches and all these things.

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There are a small group of people, a growing group of people

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