I thought this was interesting. What surface parking lots did to Cleaveland’s warehouse district (which is a nationally recognized historic district, oops).  1960s vs today. Shit like this needs to stop but you still see it happening even today in cities around the country. What a sad waste.

I thought this was interesting. What surface parking lots did to Cleaveland’s warehouse district (which is a nationally recognized historic district, oops). 

1960s vs today.

Shit like this needs to stop but you still see it happening even today in cities around the country. What a sad waste.

Posted 1 year ago
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Tagged: urbanism, cities, cleaveland, cleaveland oh, walkability, density, parking, surface parking, wtf, why, environment, .
Source: rustwire.com
  1. angeryourhands reblogged this from spounder and added:
    All of those lots could be one garage tower. All of those streets and homes and businesses!
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  6. stannate reblogged this from seaofstatic and added:
    The above is the former warehouse grounds of downtown Saint Louis as of 1942. Note the visible street grid. Compare this...
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    Pave, pave, pave the world.
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  9. seaofstatic reblogged this from drawingnothing and added:
    *shudder* Urban renewal failure *shudder*
  10. morethis reblogged this from thehourirrevocable and added:
    Guys, surface parking. STOP IT.
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    That awkward moment when
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  27. lettersfromhere reblogged this from npr and added:
    Via Rustwire.
  28. redlodge reblogged this from spaceandshape and added:
    cleveland’s nationally recognized historic warehouse district. 1960s vs. today.
  29. sjwatts reblogged this from npr and added:
    This is a crazy transformation. And you see the few cars parked in the lots?! Even though, working downtown, the parking...
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  31. bauzeitgeist reblogged this from drawingnothing and added:
    radical deactivation of the rail-networked Lakeshore at top. (recently mentioned here).