Highway-led development locks cities into low density for centuries.

Evidence

The building of a public work shapes a city perhaps more permanently than any other action of government. Large-scale public works shape a city for generations. Some public works—most notably the great bridges and highways that open new areas to development and insure that these areas will be developed on the low-density pattern fostered by highways as opposed to the high-density pattern fostered by mass transportation facilities—shape it for centuries if not, indeed, forever. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 3199

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1970s economic crisis fundamentally changed urban development patterns — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 579

Broader Connections

• The 1970s economic crisis fundamentally changed urban development patterns #expands (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 579