A large piece of the historic core of St. Louis annihilated in the name of highways and urban renewal. All the empty space was once dense neighborhoods.

Comments

1. goharvorgohome says

   This picture hurts me

2. jamesmango says

   What was the reasoning behind going directly through cities at surface level rather than just sticking to a ring road around?

3. EternalComic says

   Future generations will think we were completely mad for having done all of this just so you could drive your car right into wherever you wanted to go.

4. TheTantalizingTsar says

   “Progress”

5. Porquebrute says

   Oh god, wish there was a before/after overlay like the one with Atlanta

6. alaskagames says

   went onto google maps to see what the area looks now. effects are still there , there is a nice sports complex but still some empty lots. no clue when it was last updated tho

7. Skobtsov says

   All hail the roads! Praise the parking lots! Worship the concrete

8. IhaveCripplingAngst says

   This picture makes me want to bite a bullet. Such a disgusting fucking waste!! 60s urban planners are such greedy, awful human beings.

9. gh0bs says

   Seeing the massive shitty effect the car companies had on our city designs makes me wish we didn’t bail out those pieces of shit.