Patrick Condon sends along this cool site with before-and-after sliders from the Institute for Quality Communities:
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60 Years of Urban Change: Midwest America
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Sixty years has made a big difference in the urban form of American cities. The most rapid change occurred during the mid-century urban renewal period that cleared large tracts of urban land for new highways, parking, and public facilities or housing projects.
Fine-grained networks of streets and buildings on small lots were replaced with superblocks and megastructures. While the period did make way for impressive new projects in many cities, many of the scars are still unhealed.
We put together these sliders to show how cities have changed over half a century.
How to Use
Please click and drag the slider to reveal the comparisons between before and after photos. They are not a static left/right comparison, but overlaid on top of each other.
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More then-and-now sliders: Southeast | Oklahoma and Texas
