Word: expresswayã
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...Bronx is burning.” His signature stilted, terse cadence and morbid turn of phrase succinctly vocalized a somber resignation that threatened to stifle the once vibrant borough. Ravaged by Robert Moses’ ambitious urban planning, the Bronx—newly equipped with a gleaming expressway??literally crumbled throughout the 70s and 80s, forcing thousands of residents to seek shelter in tenements and public housing. As desperate landlords set fire to their property, hoping to reap the benefits of insurance policies, blackened, windowless towers came to punctuate the skyline of an apocalyptically desolate landscape.Joon, the protagonist...
...idea of an urban ring is not a new one. The proposed project would trace a similar past as old plans for an Inner Belt Expressway??a highway project proposed in the early 1970s that then-Governor Francis W. Sargent cancelled...
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