4/5/08

Suburban Slums

This Atlantic Monthly piece gets at what I was musing about here a while back.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

read that too. interesting story. That idea gives me hope for St. Louis ... when (or if) gasoline prices make exurban development unsustainable people might return to the city and inner-ring suburbs. St. Louis has a lot of "urban prairie" of its own they could redevelop ... and that land-assembly tax credit act McKee's lawyers wrote... St. Louis could be the next great American city - again... The way I see it, we'd have a few things going for us if a nationwide return to urban/high-density lifestyles reinvigorates demand for urban housing and office space to the extent that competition for urban space and real estate transcends localities and goes national. In that case, St. Louis might have a few good competitive advantages...plenty of developable space, low-cost/high standard of living, relatively stable real estate values - and also this fatty new interstate system we're building...