Booked on Planning
Booked on Planning
Booked on Planning
Road to Nowhere
55 minutes Posted Jan 27, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
Sponsor, Show Setup, Book Intro
Why A Unbuilt Highway Still Harmed Baltimore
School Segregation Creating Segregated Neighborhoods
Tyson Street Spared, Rosemont Targeted
How “Blight” Became A Self‑Fulfilling Label
The Win That Wasn’t: Afterlines And Fallout
Citywide Activism And The Long Slowdown
The Human Toll: Being “Elected” To Sacrifice
FHA’d And Ruined: Section 235 Backfire
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A road that was never built still managed to hollow out a neighborhood. We sit down with historian Emily Lieb to unpack how Baltimore’s “Road to Nowhere” took shape on paper, and why that was enough to destabilize Rosemont—a Black middle-class community of sturdy daylight rowhouses—through years of uncertainty, disinvestment, and policy misfires. This conversation isn’t just about Baltimore. It’s about how plans, incentives, and vague labels shape markets and lives long before construction b...