In Austin, hundreds of families will lose child care if a preschool is demolished to expand an interstate. In Houston, a young Black woman will lose her brand-new home to a new lane on Interstate 10-just blocks away from where a seventy-four-year-old nurse lost her home in the 1960s when that same highway was built. And in Dallas, an urban planner has improbably found himself at the center of a national conversation about highway removal. In her new book, “City Limits,” Megan Kimble pairs these stories with ground-level reporting to paint a vivid picture of the origins of urban highways and the environmental and social costs associated to the expansion of them—and features a behind-the-scenes look at how SGA is working with a handful of communities to repair the damage of past highway projects.
Read this excerpt for a sneak preview of “City Limits,” and consider purchasing a copy.