St. Louis shows how cities can break the “urban doom loop”
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St. Louis shows how cities can break the “urban doom loop”
Posted by abrookerunsthroughit
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St. louis is the greatest city in the entire worldÂ
The real decline of St Louis happened in the 13th and 14th centuries
Even with this progress, it can’t be understated how much car-centric urban planning hurts contemporary St. Louis compared to what the city looked like in the 1930s & 50s etc. ([1930s St. Louis Waterfront](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff74b633e-d6a7-4999-8446-c5dc9fe6bfdd_1600x1194.jpeg) & Downtown vs. [the same location in the 2020s](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c20cab2/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1280×892+0+0/resize/1760×1226!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnpr.brightspotcdn.com%2F38%2Fc5%2F8149d00f49108209d90dba371e28%2Fimage-2.png) etc.