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Joan Fitzgerald

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Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University

Aging U.S. infrastructure: Rust on the underside of the Norwalk River Railroad Bridge, built in 1896 in Norwalk, Conn., and scheduled for replacement starting in 2022. AP Photo/Susan Haigh

November 8, 2021

Bridges, bike lanes, electric car chargers and more: 5 essential reads on the infrastructure bill

Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation

What will the US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill pay for? Here are some of the things it will help build, fix or remove.

Interstate 980 cuts off West Oakland, Calif., at top, from other Oakland neighborhoods. Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

December 22, 2021

Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policies

Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University and Julian Agyeman, Tufts University

Two urban policy experts explain why taking down highways that have isolated low-income and minority neighborhoods for decades is an important part of the pending infrastructure bill.

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