•  azimir   ( @azimir@lemmy.ml ) 
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      41 year ago

      Where’s the downtown? It’s just some scattered buildings surrounded by parking moats! My city’s only marginally better. There’s about an 8 block area that’s actually like a downtown with the rest being parking and buildings that have survived being bulldozed into parking (so far, anyway).

      •  Evkob   ( @Evkob@lemmy.ca ) 
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        51 year ago

        I actually have a poster from the local museum of a map of the city, dated 1881. It had a dense, walkable downtown.

        Now it’s all parking. Seas of empty asphalt. Like we have a whole ass river and only one waterfront patio because we gave that real estate to parking.