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A Highway Runs Through It

December 1, 2011 by Next American City
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A way to rethink I-70 and the arch Credit: Vanishing STLAs the St. Louis Arch itself neared completion in 1964, before the surrounding park became anything more than a parking lot and construction site, the area was amputated from the city by what would come to be referred to as a “crushing maze of infrastructure”. Interstate 70 was... [read more]

How To Transform Suburban Ghost-Towns Into Something Better

June 14, 2011 by Kaid Benfield
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    Jamestown Mall, 16 miles north of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, is an environmental disaster.  Built on farmland in an area rich with environmentally sensitive fields and floodplains, and completely automobile-dependent, it was built in 1973 – the heyday of shopping-mall speculation – as leapfrog sprawl, in... [read more]

How To Hide An Interstate And Connect a City

June 11, 2009 by Alex Ihnen
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{a look south on High Street across I-670}Many if not most of you have seen photos of the I-670 overpass in Columbus, OH. It's easy to cite this project as an example for other cities, but very few sites are suited for such a solution. In Columbus you have the Convention Center and downtown immediately to the south and the Short North,... [read more]

The Green Impact Zone

May 25, 2009 by Chris Cheatham
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As readers may know, I am a die hard Kansas Jayhawk basketball fan.  Our main rival is the Missouri Tigers.  So if I discuss something that originates from Missouri, you better believe that the Missourians have come up with something extraordinary.  U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver has established a plan for an... [read more]

MODOT Gives Missouri Some Roundabout Love

May 17, 2009 by Alex Ihnen
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Roundabouts in Forest Park, roundabouts at Spoede Road and Hampton & Wells as part of the new I-64. Good to see the roundabout getting some much deserved love in St. Louis.Link to original post [read more]