{"pk":50514,"title":"Book Review: Megan Kimble, City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>People cannot be economically mobile if they are not able to be mobile. People cannot access employment, healthcare, or education if they cannot get there. Transportation policy and decision-making has been dominated by white, male, able-bodied, cisgender engineers (Frisch, 2002; Lowe, 2021). As a result, many of the decisions made by transportation policymakers lack the grounding in racial justice or the life experiences of the most vulnerable users (Barajas, 2021; Frisch, 2002; Lowe, 2021; Lowe et al., 2023; Vigar, 2017). In City Limits, Megan Kimble aims to pull back the curtain on transportation decision-making and the effects of those decisions as she takes the reader through the journey of how a highway gets built and who it violently destroys in the process. Divided into three sections, City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways, uses three Texas cities and freeways as case studies to detail the fight for and against Houston’s I-45, Austin’s I-35, and Dallas’ I-345 through the eyes of several community members, elected officials, government staff, small businesses, and community organizations. </p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"none","short_name":"none","text":"","url":"https://escholarship.org/terms"},"keywords":[{"word":"transportation"},{"word":"Highways"},{"word":"mobility justice"},{"word":"Race"},{"word":"Law"},{"word":"Equity"}],"section":"Book Reviews","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sc9p73x","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tamika","middle_name":"","last_name":"Butler","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCLA","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2025-07-30T05:00:55.903000Z","date_accepted":"2025-08-01T04:42:43.255000Z","date_published":"2025-08-01T04:49:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"Download PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/criticalplanning/article/50514/galley/38503/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"Download PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/criticalplanning/article/50514/galley/38503/download/"}]}