User:Whiskers8000/Interstate Highway System/Bibliography

You will be compiling your bibliography and creating an outline of the changes you will make in this sandbox.

Bibliography

As you gather the sources for your Wikipedia contribution, think about the following:

Is the source from a reliable publication?
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If you're creating a new article, consider the following:
- Ensure that your topic meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines.
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Bibliography

Edit this section to compile the bibliography for your Wikipedia assignment. Add the name and/or notes about what each source covers, then use the "Cite" button to generate the citation for that source.

Examples:

Luke, Learie. 2007. Identity and secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889–1980 Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
- This is a book published by a university press, so it should be a reliable source. It also covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Galeano, Gloria; Bernal, Rodrigo (2013-11-08). "Sabinaria , a new genus of palms (Cryosophileae, Coryphoideae, Arecaceae) from the Colombia-Panama border". Phytotaxa.
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source. It covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Baker, William J.; Dransfield, John (2016). "Beyond Genera Palmarum: progress and prospects in palm systematics". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source for a specific fact. Since it only dedicates a few sentences to the topic, it can't be used to establish notability.

Interstate Highway Act: Was the Interstate Highway System Beneficial to the United States? (2000). In R. J. Allison (Ed.), History in Dispute (Vol. 2, pp. 105-113). St. James Press. ^[1]
- Opinion piece showing both a positive and negative outlook on the Interstate Highway System. From an academic textbook, so it should be a reputable source.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/america-on-the-move/essays/american-railroads ^[2]
- A document summarizing the history of the American railroads. Has some references to the impact of the interstate system on the railroads.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/traffic-atlanta-segregation.html?mtrref=purdue.brightspace.com&gwh=3DC996C21A73C68A535A773F23EA12E8&gwt ^[3]
- This New York Times article specifically looks at the impact of the Interstate Highway System on Atlanta's neighborhoods. It also looks at general information about how the system negatively impacted minority-dominated neighborhoods.

https://theconversation.com/removing-urban-highways-can-improve-neighborhoods-blighted-by-decades-of-racist-policies-166220 ^[4]
- This piece, written by two professors in urban policies, describes the history of segregation in urban areas as well as the current negative impacts of the interstate highway system on minority neighborhoods.

References

^ Interstate Highway Act: Was the Interstate Highway System Beneficial to the United States? (2000). In R. J. Allison (Ed.), History in Dispute (Vol. 2, pp. 105-113). St. James Press.
^ https://americanhistory.si.edu/america-on-the-move/essays/american-railroads
^ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/traffic-atlanta-segregation.html?mtrref=purdue.brightspace.com&gwh=3DC996C21A73C68A535A773F23EA12E8&gwt
^ https://theconversation.com/removing-urban-highways-can-improve-neighborhoods-blighted-by-decades-of-racist-policies-166220

Outline of proposed changes

Click on the edit button to draft your outline.

Now that you have compiled a bibliography, it's time to plan out how you'll improve your assigned article.

In this section, write up a concise outline of how the sources you've identified will add relevant information to your chosen article. Be sure to discuss what content gap your additions tackle and how these additions will improve the article's quality.

Consider other changes you'll make to the article, including possible deletions of irrelevant, outdated, or incorrect information, restructuring of the article to improve its readability or any other change you plan on making. This is your chance to really think about how your proposed additions will improve your chosen article and to vet your sources even further.

Note: This is not a draft. This is an outline/plan where you can think about how the sources you've identified will fill in a content gap.

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Source 1 (Gale EBooks: Interstate Highway Act: Was the Interstate Highway System Beneficial to the United States?) will be used to outline and give a brief overview of many negative impacts of the interstate highway system. It can also provide as a general source if I am unable to find specific data, but still want to include an impact.

Source 2 (American Railroads) will be used to identify specific impacts the interstate system had on the US rail network. While I was unable to find sufficient data on passenger rail, it is evident that the interstate system was the nail in the coffin. This source provides good data for freight rail.

Source 3 (Atlanta segregation) will be used for specific examples to show how the interstate system was used to create barriers between white and black neighborhoods, as well as a good source for showing "white flight" following the construction of the interstates.

Source 4 (Removing urban highways) will be used to show how interstates have continued segregation, succeeding redlining and other now illegal tactics. The source is also good for showing how the interstates are affecting people today: pollution, increased chance of industrial buildings being built thus increasing pollution further, decreased funding for public transportation.

Overall my sources will add to a, in my opinion, lacking paragraph on the negative consequences of the interstate highway system tucked all the way at the bottom of the article.

[1] Interstate Highway Act: Was the Interstate Highway System Beneficial to the United States? (2000). In R. J. Allison (Ed.), History in Dispute (Vol. 2, pp. 105-113). St. James Press.

[2] ttps://americanhistory.si.edu/america-on-the-move/essays/american-railroads

[3] ttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/traffic-atlanta-segregation.html?mtrref=purdue.brightspace.com&gwh=3DC996C21A73C68A535A773F23EA12E8&gwt

[4] ttps://theconversation.com/removing-urban-highways-can-improve-neighborhoods-blighted-by-decades-of-racist-policies-166220

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