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"site": "https://nebula.tv",
"tags": [
"Urbanism",
"L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living there makes people sick",
"City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways",
"How to Remove a Highway",
"Mitigating air and noise pollution through highway capping: The Bundang-Suseo Highway Cap Project case study",
"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",
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"textContent": "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?\n\n# Resources mentioned in this video\n\n * LA Times: L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living there makes people sick\n\n * Great book: City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways\n\n * My video on highway removal: How to Remove a Highway\n\n\n\n\n# Resources on this topic\n\n * Mitigating air and noise pollution through highway capping: The Bundang-Suseo Highway Cap Project case study\n * Combined impacts of highways and light rail transit on residential\nproperty values: a spatial hedonic price model for Phoenix, Arizona>\n * Health Effects caused by Noise:\nEvidence in the Literature from the Past 25 Years\n * Urban Elevated Highways in Residential Districts: New Developed Elevated Highways from Residents’ Perspectives\n * Near-highway pollutants in motor vehicle exhaust: A review of epidemiologic evidence of cardiac and pulmonary health risks\n * Characterization of winter air pollutant gradients near a major highway\n * Reduction of air pollution levels downwind of a road with an upwind noise barrier\n * Spatial and temporal differences in traffic-related air pollution in three urban neighborhoods near an interstate highway\n * Effective Noise Barrier Solutions for TxDOT\n\n\n\n# Other stuff!\n\nLink to the Discord: https://discord.gg/7Fgyjx52B3\n\nProduced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.\nWritten by Dave Amos.\nSelect images and video from Getty Images.\nBlack Lives Matter.\nTrans rights.",
"title": "What’s it like to live next to a highway?"
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