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Originally Posted by jtown,man
I don't know why, but my impression of St. Louis has always been that its urban areas are quite sleepy and spread out. However, I do think the city has probably some of the greatest potential of any American city to become very urban again. I mean, imagine the city with Austin-level growth!
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the urban core itself is spread out with a lot of secondary urban activity/employment/highrise nodes for the size of the region, almost like a proto-los angeles. i wish i could smoosh it into about half the size at twice the density. the city sprawled up-elevation in the 19th century to outrun its own pollution in the valley, and had a secondary CBD by the 1960s. i remember reading a 1920s planning document that concerned the spreading of "low density" apartment buildings and housing too far west too quickly.