> In what way were they demolished? Cars allow for urban sprawl. People now have homes in places where they rely on cars to get to work. Local example: There w

> In what way were they demolished? Cars allow for urban sprawl. People now have homes in places where they rely on cars to get to work. Local example: There were plans in the 1950 to have a highway cross through Berlin Kreuzberg (The A106, today Oranienstraße for the locals). Part of those plans were put in motion, the buildings around Kottbusser Tor date back to those ideas. Massive local protests put a stop to that. More recent example from Berlin: the current extension of the A100. You can find enough examples of highways cutting through existing neighborhoods in the US if you look around a little. To cite [1] “ Planners of the interstate highway system, which began to take shape after the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, routed some highways directly, and sometimes purposefully, through Black and brown communities. In some instances, the government took homes by eminent domain.” [1] https://text.npr.org/984784455 https://text.npr.org/984784455