In this episode, hosts Mark Schulz and Alison Hager discuss the noun “highway.”
ReNouned is a podcast for the curious. We dust off the commonplace to look for shiny new relevance as we challenge ourselves to think critically about the objects that surround us. How do they echo humanity’s past, reflect the present, or foreshadow the future?
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STUFF TO CHECK OUT FROM THIS EPISODE
Things to read:
The Highway Man Alfred Noyes.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Caro, Robert A.
Things to watch:
The Brady Bunch – Don’t Shoot on YouTube
ENG 2361: Ancient Engineering OSU- Group 9: Chorobates on YouTube
Groma Video Project on YouTube
Levelling - Chorobates | Water technology in ancient Vienna on YouTube
Things to listen to:
Highway Playlist *Coming Soon*
Things to do:
Live in NYC? Go see Straight Line Crazy
OTHER WORKS CITED
Archer, Deborah N. “’White Men’s Roads Through Black Men’s Homes’: Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction.” 73 Vanderbilt Law Review 1259 (2020). NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-49
Badger, Emily & Cameron, Darla. “How Railroads, Highways and Other Man-Made Lines Racially Divide America’s Cities.” The Washington Post. July 16, 2015.
Callender, Gordon W. “Classical Military Engineering: Roman Road Construction.” The Military Engineer, vol. 67, no. 440, 1975, pp. 336–37. JSTOR
“Information on Materials and Practices for Improving Highway Pavement Performance.” GAO Reports, Nov. 2012, pp. 1–21. EBSCOhost
Khare et al., “Asphalt-Related Emissions Are A Major Missing Nontraditional Source Of Secondary Organic Aerosol Precursors.” Science Advances. 2020; 6. 2 September 2020.
Mahajan, Avichal. Highways and segregation. February 2022.
Marshall, Michael. “Asphalt On Roads May Soon Be Greater Source of Air Pollution Than Cars.” New Scientist.” September 2, 2020
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