It appears to be the hell to which that storied road paved with good intentions leads. I mean, you can see what was meant and with the benefit of hindsight, we can all see that it was just another grim swath of urban "renewal" that killed off the kinds of neighborhoods people fall over themselves to live and work in today. Same shit, different city, in other words.
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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