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Episode 575: Megan Kimble
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Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of The Texas Observer and has written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The Guardian. Her new book is City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.
“I have never lived in a city that was not wrapped in highways. It’s hard for me to imagine anything else. And I think that’s true for a lot of people today. ... [But] we have known since the origins of the interstate highways program that building highways through cities doesn’t fix traffic. And yet we keep doing it. To me, that really fueled a lot of the book. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.”
Show notes:
- @megankimble
- megankimble.com
- Kimble on Longform
- Kimble’s Texas Observer archive
- 11:00 Kimble’s Austin Monthly archive
- 13:00 “Austin’s Not-So-Fair Housing Market” (Austin Monthly • Sept 2018)
- 49:00 “The Road Home” (Texas Observer • July 2021)
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654 episodes
Manage episode 410460338 series 2296031
Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of The Texas Observer and has written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The Guardian. Her new book is City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.
“I have never lived in a city that was not wrapped in highways. It’s hard for me to imagine anything else. And I think that’s true for a lot of people today. ... [But] we have known since the origins of the interstate highways program that building highways through cities doesn’t fix traffic. And yet we keep doing it. To me, that really fueled a lot of the book. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.”
Show notes:
- @megankimble
- megankimble.com
- Kimble on Longform
- Kimble’s Texas Observer archive
- 11:00 Kimble’s Austin Monthly archive
- 13:00 “Austin’s Not-So-Fair Housing Market” (Austin Monthly • Sept 2018)
- 49:00 “The Road Home” (Texas Observer • July 2021)
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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