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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](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692314001653)
– [Health Effects caused by Noise:
Evidence in the Literature from the Past 25 Years](file:///Users/daveamos/Downloads/health_effects_caused_by_noise__evidence_in_the.3.pdf)
– [Urban Elevated Highways in Residential Districts: New Developed Elevated Highways from Residents’ Perspectives](https://ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000800?casa_token=yX5EaM94gTMAAAAA:_lXVYsO94VK9u-8khX8_LuLkUIwU4_zmXPSE9-e5fX44-DFhI2Tlqo68qvgKNJaUJNB8-cH3Ctg)
– 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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