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During the 1950s and 1960s, the federal government funded the construction of highways in cities across the country. To build the new infrastructure¹, many cities seized land from existing neighborhoods in a process that came to be known as urban renewal². Many of those neighborhoods had predominantly African-American or immigrant residents.

A Lansing project called Paving the Way wants to digitally preserve the history of one such black neighborhood demolished³ during the construction of I-496.

Bill Castanier is the president of the Historical Society of Greater Lansing, which is leading the project. Adolph Burton is a lifelong Lansing resident who grew up in the community that was displaced to make way for I-496.

The city of Lansing used federal dollars to purchase the homes of more than 650 black families in the neighborhood where I-496 now stands. Those families then had 45 days to find somewhere else to live. This was at a time when Lansing's residential⁴ areas were deeply segregated⁵, and the city was in the midst of a housing shortage.

Paving the Way aims to revive the stories of people who lived in that demolished neighborhood through audio and video oral histories. The project will also include an interactive⁶ map that lets viewers click on houses to see who lived there and where they eventually moved.

We wanted to tell the story of a time and place that's totally gone, Castanier said.

Click through the slideshow at the top of the page to learn more about the history behind the black Lansing neighborhood lost to urban renewal.

1 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

2 renewal   

adj.(契约)延期，续订，更新，复活，重来

参考例句：

• Her contract is coming up for renewal in the autumn.她的合同秋天就应该续签了。
• Easter eggs symbolize the renewal of life.复活蛋象征新生。

3 demolished   

v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 )；推翻；拆毁（尤指大建筑物）；吃光

参考例句：

• The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
• They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来，为了不让拆除他们的房子，他们一直在进行最后的努力。

4 residential   

adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的

参考例句：

• The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
• The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。

5 segregated   

分开的； 被隔离的

参考例句：

• a culture in which women are segregated from men 妇女受到隔离歧视的文化
• The doctor segregated the child sick with scarlet fever. 大夫把患猩红热的孩子隔离起来。

6 interactive   

adj.相互作用的，互相影响的，（电脑）交互的

参考例句：

• The psychotherapy is carried out in small interactive groups.这种心理治疗是在互动的小组之间进行的。
• This will make videogames more interactive than ever.这将使电子游戏的互动性更胜以往。