I thought this was interesting. What surface parking lots did to Cleveland’s warehouse district (which is a nationally recognized historic district, oops).
1960s vs today.
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All of those lots could be one garage tower. All of those streets and homes and businesses!
The above is the former warehouse grounds of downtown Saint Louis as of 1942. Note the visible street grid. Compare this...
Pave, pave, pave the world.
*shudder* Urban renewal failure *shudder*
Guys, surface parking. STOP IT.
That awkward moment when
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cleveland’s nationally recognized historic warehouse district. 1960s vs. today.
This is a crazy transformation. And you see the few cars parked in the lots?! Even though, working downtown, the parking...
radical deactivation of the rail-networked Lakeshore at top. (recently mentioned here).