The Cities We Destroyed @citiesdestroyed
Documenting the cities we gave up for freeways, stroads, and parking lots. Tag for a RT Joined September 2021-
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I haven’t been as active lately, but @CarsRuinedCity has been. Check them out!
I haven’t been as active lately, but @CarsRuinedCity has been. Check them out!
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Redemption award!
Yes, this is the same location some 132 years later. We don't have to design a city around the car. (Providence)
Redemption Award!
Redemption award!
Redemption award!!
West End being gutted for I-75 in late 50s and West End in 2018.
Today's "We Ruined Our Own Cities" file entry comes from Cincinnati via @cammillerfilms.
McKeesport, PA added to the "We Ruined Our Own Cities" file. 1/7
Redemption award!
Redemption award!
Humboldt Park in 1934 and today. Look how wide the sidewalks were!
Redemption award!
Redemption award!
Main Street in Ellicott City, Maryland looks pretty similar to what it did at the turn of the century. Except the cars uglify the streetscape. As usual.
Centre Street, looking from Main Street Ashtabula, Ohio How it’s started How it’s going
"Disemboweling a dozen communities along the way," writes @RobertACaro, the Cross Bronx displaced over 60,000. With many Jewish, Irish, & Italian immigrants, Puerto Ricans, & African Americans, the neighborhoods destroyed "were among the most racially integrated in the country."
Pushed by 90% fed. financing from the '56 Hwy Bill, planners gouged highways through cities across the nation. In Boston, the Charles River Esplanade was divided from the city to provide for suburban commuters—suburbs at the time restricted to "only those of the Caucasian race."
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@thebigfatj @nottheengineer @fietsprofessor Luckily it never rains in Eindhoven, so they don’t have to worry about it.
Space required for: 🚗 parking (e)cars on the left 🚲 parking (e)bikes on the right (at Eindhoven train station)
As a society, we've decided that private companies are allowed to design, produce, and sell vehicles capable of speed and power that enables this type of violence on our streets. imgur.com/gallery/v8XQXi5
car dealership▶️▶️▶️housing Notably the *first* thing the developer mentions in their description of this condo building is only a nine minute walk to the Sauvé Metro station. Ahuntsic-Cartierville Montreal, QC
@citiesdestroyed Not a fun topic though - i try to show more of the positives, contrast the negatives. What keeps your spirits up? :)
@the_transit_guy Oh yeah, Kansas city has a noose around their downtown.
The Roxborough neighborhood is technically within the City of Philadelphia, but I think this project is probably a good example of what adding density to the suburbs will look like: replacing 3 single family homes with 163 apartments, but also a shitload of parking (166 spots).
Electrified rail transit was another casualty of the federal government’s concerted effort to create a white, automobile-based suburbia. nytimes.com/2009/11/29/rea…
Same architecture, completely different experience. via @GroundworkGM @createstreets
Do this. New Orleans getting better & more beautiful by creating lovely #GentleDensity Via @natehoodstp
@NaqiyFL @dmtrubman They are an important reminder that we can make things better again.
@dmtrubman Where do you find your awesome collection of historical pictures?! Love these posts despite how tragic they are.
@NaqiyFL This one is from @Shorpy. I really appreciate the feedback. Often it comes down to B&W photos vs colored postcards, which each have advantages. Been doing more collages recently, which algorithms and cropping treat better? Usually I (wisely) defer to @SweetComrade.
@urbanismu @citiesdestroyed See the thread above ;) I have found an interesting restorated historical image. The area is now part of the busy city ring road with a intersection with radial connector road nearby
The society that built Detroit's Michigan Central Railroad Station was *so* poor by modern standards, and yet they managed to build a temple. Future anthropologists will compare that building to modern Amtrak station in Detroit and assume there was a civilization level collapse.
#OTD in 1913, Detroit's Michigan Central Railroad Station opened. The unfinished building was forced into service early after the original depot in downtown Detroit suffered a major fire. It would be formally dedicated on January 4, 1914. Learn more: detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclop…
Nice things are possible.
Two girls stand in the same location in Utrecht between 1982 and 2020 (38 years). The difference is clear, not only in the street components which can be implemented and achieved by designers, but the real development is the urban mobility modes Picture source: @edwinlucas_
@notMrAndre737 Mám o tom celý účet @urbanismu , kde si můžete prohlédnout zajímavé trendy Ještě bych doporučil účet @citiesdestroyed , kde jsou příklady měst, kde automobilismus měl horší následky než jen magistrála v Praze
Built in the 1890s, this opulent Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival building in Indianapolis served as a surgical center and hotel for most of its existence. It was razed in the late 1940s, and has been a parking lot ever since.
Built in the 1890s, this opulent Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival building in Indianapolis served as a surgical center and hotel for most of its existence. It was razed in the late 1940s, and has been a parking lot ever since.
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