Highways are noisy and full of polluting cars. How bad is it to live near one? And why do we keep building new housing next to them?

Resources mentioned in this video

• LA Times: L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living there makes people sick

• Great book: City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

• My video on highway removal: How to Remove a Highway

Resources on this topic

• Mitigating air and noise pollution through highway capping: The Bundang-Suseo Highway Cap Project case study
• Combined impacts of highways and light rail transit on residential property values: a spatial hedonic price model for Phoenix, Arizona>
• Health Effects caused by Noise: Evidence in the Literature from the Past 25 Years
• Urban Elevated Highways in Residential Districts: New Developed Elevated Highways from Residents’ Perspectives
• Near-highway pollutants in motor vehicle exhaust: A review of epidemiologic evidence of cardiac and pulmonary health risks
• Characterization of winter air pollutant gradients near a major highway
• Reduction of air pollution levels downwind of a road with an upwind noise barrier
• Spatial and temporal differences in traffic-related air pollution in three urban neighborhoods near an interstate highway
• Effective Noise Barrier Solutions for TxDOT

Other stuff!

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