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SUMMARY:Overbuilt: Book Talk and Conversation with Erick Guerra
DESCRIPTION:The book explores how outdated policies\, flawed funding systems\, and misguided metrics led to the overbuilding of the U.S. roadway network\n\n\nJoin the Department of City & Regional Planning and the Penn Institute for Urban Research for this talk on Professor Erick Guerra‘s new book\, Overbuilt. The book explores how outdated policies\, flawed funding systems\, and misguided metrics led to the overbuilding of the U.S. roadway network. Guerra examines the lasting consequences of this overbuilding and outlines how policymakers can “unbuild” to create a more sustainable and effective transportation future. \nAbout the Book \nOf the approximately inflation-adjusted $2.5 trillion spent on highways from the Highway Trust Fund since its inception in 1956\, about 60 percent has been spent since completing the last bit of the originally planned Interstate System in 1992. About 75 percent has been spent since the system was supposed to have been completed in 1969. State and local governments have spent trillions more on capital road investments and repairs over the same period. \nThough fewer homes and businesses are destroyed\, highway planners have added 75% more lane miles of urban interstate and 55 percent more secondary highways and arterials today than there were in 1992. Few Americans have a sense of how much the government spends on roadways or how\, why\, or where roads get built. The better informed generally understand that the federal government and states raise dedicated transportation funds through a gas tax. And these funds are primarily spent to build\, widen\, upgrade\, and maintain major highways and arterials. \nErick Guerra\, Ph.D.\, is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Associate Dean for Research at the Weitzman School at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he teaches courses in transportation planning and quantitative planning methods. His research focuses on relationships between land use\, transportation systems\, and travel behavior with an emphasis on rapidly motorizing cities\, public health outcomes\, and transportation technologies. \nYou’ll be able to purchase a copy of Overbuilt at the event from the Penn Bookstore. Please note that they do not accept cash.  \nIf you require any accessibility accommodation\, such as live captioning\, audio description\, or a sign language interpreter\, please email news@design.upenn.edu. Please note\, we require at least five (5) business days’ notice. \n \n\n\nNOTICE OF PHOTOGRAPHY\, FILMING\, OR RECORDING \nAT WEITZMAN \nOn any day\, the Weitzman School of Design may have a photographer or videographer in the building\, or \notherwise be recording or transmitting audio and/or video. These photos\, videos\, and audio recordings or \ntransmissions may be used in Weitzman School publications and promotional materials\, on our website\, or \nbe distributed by the School to other public websites. \nThe photographer or videographer will be noticeable\, and/or there will be a notice indicating that audio \nand/or video will be recorded in or transmitted from that area. You may choose to absent yourself from \nany area that is being filmed\, photographed\, or recorded. \nPlease note that any photographs\, videos\, and recordings belong to the Weitzman School and that no one \nwill receive any payment or other compensation for an appearance in any video\, photograph\, or recording. \nYour choice to remain in the area implies your consent to the use\, copyright\, publication\, republication\, \ndistribution\, display\, and performance of the photographs\, videos\, recordings\, and transmissions in \nWeitzman School of Design-approved materials.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/overbuilt-book-talk-and-conversation-with-erick-guerra/
LOCATION:Meyerson Hall – Upper Gallery\, 210 South 34th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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