60 Years of Urban Change in Northeastern Cities

[briv]

Here's a site from the University of Oklahoma's Institute for Quality Communities with some interesting (and depressing) before and after images of some the bigger cities of the northeast US. Boston is included:

http://iqc.ou.edu/2015/01/21/60yrsnortheast/

 

[FK4]

providence is particularly shocking.

 

[underground]

Today, more than 20% of land downtown is used for parking.

Dear Hartford,
I've identified a problem.
Thanks,
UG

 

[cozzyd]

The midwestern version, http://iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/12/60yrsmidwest/, is even more depressing.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Well that was depressing.

 

[George_Apley]

providence is particularly shocking.

Providence was just completely destroyed...

 

[hockey92]

Milwaukee, Syracuse and Rochester look like they got hit pretty hard by urban renewal

 

[deh74]

Damn, compared to some of these cities, it seems like Boston got out relatively well. I mean, at least we didn't replace the West End with parking lots.

 

[393b40]

Yea Boston made out about as well as it could. It could have been a lot worse, I forgot who brought the last Boston Master Plan from 1961(?) to the aB meetup but there were plans in there for flattening all of Beacon Hill which was... shocking.