In Dan's spirit, I present you with, in this view, a harder choice to make when it comes to choosing between 2 great cities in Missouri and Ohio.
Located on opposite sides of the state in relation to Kansas City and Cleveland, St. Louis and Cinccinati, respectively, are both fascinating cities that have made enormous progress in revitalizing their vitality, downtown cores, and outlying areas.
Both are located by great rivers and were settled as ports/ barge shipping centers. Both are pre-auto oriented in terms of their land use development - the fact that trolleys influenced their land use is especially evident in St.Louis. Both are post-industrial cities with quite impressive redevelopment efforts in their industrial areas. Both have vibrant ethnic neighborhoods and have built impressive mass transit - light rail in St.Louis is excellent, and the proposed and, hopefully, implemented soon light rail system in Cincinnati looks as good as the one in St.Louis, if not better.
It's a tough one for me, but I'll go with St.Louis for now because it already does have its light rail built and because Cincinnati dismantled its planning department lately...
Now, what do you think?
Located on opposite sides of the state in relation to Kansas City and Cleveland, St. Louis and Cinccinati, respectively, are both fascinating cities that have made enormous progress in revitalizing their vitality, downtown cores, and outlying areas.
Both are located by great rivers and were settled as ports/ barge shipping centers. Both are pre-auto oriented in terms of their land use development - the fact that trolleys influenced their land use is especially evident in St.Louis. Both are post-industrial cities with quite impressive redevelopment efforts in their industrial areas. Both have vibrant ethnic neighborhoods and have built impressive mass transit - light rail in St.Louis is excellent, and the proposed and, hopefully, implemented soon light rail system in Cincinnati looks as good as the one in St.Louis, if not better.
It's a tough one for me, but I'll go with St.Louis for now because it already does have its light rail built and because Cincinnati dismantled its planning department lately...
Now, what do you think?