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Current Work: Capping Highways, Transforming Infrastructure

Highway capping, the intervention of building a deck bridge over a major roadway, can create new parkland in urban areas, stitching together formerly separated neighborhoods and mitigating negative environmental impacts of open roadways. Recent federal efforts such as the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Grant Program within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act highlight the reparative power of highway caps in cities scarred, often along racial lines, by mid-century urban renewal.

Yet the barriers to realizing these large-scale infrastructure projects are many: from the challenges of transportation planning for major thoroughfares, to sustaining public and private support over extended timelines, to the complex design decisions about both the structure of the deck itself and of community placemaking in this reclaimed urban landscape. The program will explore the process of realizing these large-scale infrastructural projects and evaluating the transformative potential of highway caps to create a more equitable, shared public realm.











When: Thu., Apr. 24, 2025 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Pratt Institute - Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Ave.

Price: $15
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Highway capping, the intervention of building a deck bridge over a major roadway, can create new parkland in urban areas, stitching together formerly separated neighborhoods and mitigating negative environmental impacts of open roadways. Recent federal efforts such as the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Grant Program within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act highlight the reparative power of highway caps in cities scarred, often along racial lines, by mid-century urban renewal.

Yet the barriers to realizing these large-scale infrastructure projects are many: from the challenges of transportation planning for major thoroughfares, to sustaining public and private support over extended timelines, to the complex design decisions about both the structure of the deck itself and of community placemaking in this reclaimed urban landscape. The program will explore the process of realizing these large-scale infrastructural projects and evaluating the transformative potential of highway caps to create a more equitable, shared public realm.

Buy tickets/get more info now