Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture: ¡Autopista Kanpora! Political Economies and Ecologies of Urban Highway Removal in Bilbao

As urban highways built in the mid-20th century age and increasingly limit urban development potential, there is growing interest in replacing them with parks, housing, and surface boulevards in the interest of repairing their harmful social and environmental impacts and implementing a more sustainable model of urbanism. In this presentation, I explore the political-economic and political-ecological dimensions of highway removal and related mitigation projects in the United States and Spain.