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That video makes Minneapolis look a bit like London. I lived in the Twin Cities for years and never knew that they once looked like that. What a disaster. The real travesty is that they were torn down for no reason (i.e., they didn't need the space at the time). Most of the buildings in downtown were build long after the destruction.
My home town of Chicago no doubt, for a while a couple years back there was a good balance between old and new, but things have gone too far now and all these old homes and buildings have been torn down (or are in the process) and replaced with terrible, ugly and tacky condo's that will look outdated in 5-10 years for transplants. There are litterrally entire neighborhoods right now in my city that are nothing but strips and strips of condo complexes. Imagine an ubran twist to a suburban lifestyle, instead of rows of ticky-tacky, cookie cutter houses, it's tick-tacky, cookie cutter condominiums. I'm pretty sure this is the demopgrahic this appeals to as well. It's disgusting, and Chicago is going to hell in a hand basket. I miss the real Chicago, not this fake, steaming pile of crap.
I apologize to anyone that did not agree with me putting Pittsburgh on the list. I don't like the term Rust Belt, and really I can't think of a good alternative to Midwest.
I wanted to put all the non-East Coast cities that had substantial populations in 1930, that were not located in the West.
Anyway, I see nobody has voted for Pittsburgh, but that's probably because it's not in the Midwest, because Pitt has destroyed plenty of historical architecture as well.
I'm sure how to change the title of the thread ... and if I could change it, I don't know what I call it.
You missed Columbus on your list, and there is practically no city that I've known that has done a better job destroying its historical architecture than Columbus.
Doing everything I can in my power not to hi-jack this thread and show how ridiciulously Boston was raped by Urban Renewal....
I apologize to anyone that did not agree with me putting Pittsburgh on the list. I don't like the term Rust Belt, and really I can't think of a good alternative to Midwest.
I wanted to put all the non-East Coast cities that had substantial populations in 1930, that were not located in the West.
Anyway, I see nobody has voted for Pittsburgh, but that's probably because it's not in the Midwest, because Pitt has destroyed plenty of historical architecture as well.
I'm sure how to change the title of the thread ... and if I could change it, I don't know what I call it.
You do realize Minneapolis isn't a Rust Belt city? Duluth and cities located in the Iron Range could be considered Rust Belt cities, but Minneapolis and St. Paul are not.
Ohh hindsight. It's easy to look back and see how devastating our urban renewal was to the architecture of our cities here in the U.S. in the 50s and 60s.
I could link hundreds upon hundreds of buildings that were torn down here in Buffalo that were architecturally stunning. Everything from the Frank Loyd Wright Larkin Building to tearing out a Olmsted designed parkway for an Expressway.
Rustbelt/midwestern cities have had a very turbulent decade. White flight, population loss, disinvestment, subsided suburbs, the explosion of cars and everything that comes along with it(roads, highways, expressways, disinvestment of public transport) and just a general disinvestment in cities in general.
It's not cut and dry though is it? Nothing to be upset over.
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