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In the News: When City and State Highway Officials Disagree on Safety, Pedestrians Lose

This week, CURA was featured in an article by Pew Trust. This article discussed the study Lower Volumes, Higher Speeds: Changes to Crash Type, Timing, and Severity on Urban Roads from COVID-…

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In the News: Visualizing Columbus Before Freeways

This week, CURA's Ghost Neighborhood of Columbus project was featured in Planetizen. The article summarized an existing Columbus Dispatch article that was recently published. 

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In the News: Columbus neighborhoods cut up by freeways being reimagined by Ohio State researchers in 3D

This week, the Columbus Dispatch featured our Ghost Neighborhoods of Columbus project. This article also featured residents from the area, who could recall the highway system going in.…

Areal view of Hanford Village before freeway construction

In the News: Ohio State project hopes to tell stories of Columbus 'ghost neighborhoods' destroyed by highways

This week, Columbus Business First featured our Ghost Neighborhoods of Columbus project. CURA director, Harvey Miller, and outreach coordinator, Gerika Logan, were interviewed to discuss what this…

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In the News: Researchers recreating lost neighborhoods

This week, CURA director, Harvey Miller, was interviewed by Spectrum News 1 OH to promote our Ghost Neighborhoods of Columbus project. Harvey discussed the negative impacts of highway…

Ghost Neighborhoods of Columbus. Photo is showing a recreation of a street in Hanford Village, Columbus, OH

In the News: Mapping out our "ghost neighborhoods"

This week, CURA's Ghost Neighbohoods of Columbus project was featured in Axios Columbus. 

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Intel Chip Plant

In the News: 'Don't panic': Transportation officials discuss Intel traffic concerns

This week, CURA director, Harvey Miller, was featured in 10tv regarding transportation concerns for the new Intel Facility being constructed in New Albany. This article also featured Kimberly…

This image shows the Hanford Village and Driving Park neighborhoods in 1961. It also shows the modern day I-70 highway, and the buildings destroyed or relocated for its construction, highlighted in red. The project is also gathering historic photos, archival documents and narratives to create story maps that will tell the tales of neighborhoods lost to highway construction.

In the News: Recreating “ghost neighborhoods” destroyed by highways

This week, CURA was featured in the Ohio State News, regarding our Ghost Neighborhoods project. CURA has launched the Ghost Neighborhood of Columbus project to help people…

Darryl Hood

CURA Faculty Affiliate appointed to National Advisory Health Sciences Council

CURA Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Darryl Hood, was recently appointed to a 3-year term to serve on the National Advisory Health Sciences Council (NAEHSC). The NAEHSC is a…