Route 34 New Haven: Past, Present and Future

Part 1:
New Haven, CT at its peak in the 1920s
-Great mass transit
-Walkable streets
-Human-scale buildings
-Local retail
-Civic spaces

Part 2:
Neglect of surrounding neighborhoods
-Deteriorating buildings
-Poorly kept tenements
-Dirty streets
-People bounded together
-Sense of community
-Open air markets

Part 3:
Renewal
-Destruction of historic buildings
-Expansion/creation of massive highways and roads
-Automobile above all else
-Suburbs come before the city
-Commuters more important than city-dwellers

Part 4:
Results
-Massive surface parking lots
-Crime plagued neighborhoods split up by massive boulevard
-Poor people concentrated into small areas
-Wasted land
-Loss in tax revenue
-Eye sores
-No community
-No life

Part 5:
My proposal for a new route 34
-Dense mixed use buildings, much in the style of the past
-Paying homage to the architecture of a century ago
-Walkable, narrow streets
-Reconnecting grid system
-Pedestrian paths

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• sprawl
• urban
• renewal
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• avenue
• urbanism

[Plupz]

im from new haven and im diggin this respect

[milky27oreo]

4:36 That's a very nice design for a building!

[FairHavenErin]

Wow! Well done.