Originally published on Medium, May 24, 2021
A solid sheet of sunbaked concrete stretches from Portland, Maine, to Washington, D.C., to further points in all directions. US Interstate 95’s endless offshoots — the suburbs and exurbs that make the Northeast Urban Corridor — keep the sun from reaching the soils that have, for centuries, sustained the region’s uprise of wealth and consequent intake of mass populations.
Full article: https://findethanjames.medium.com/re-plant-the-suburbs-an-arcadian-alternative-to-abolition-w-maps-7d363e7591be
Ethan James (Berriault) 