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Originally Posted by Cro Burnham
To be honest, I'm shocked at how well that place looks, how well it seems to be lived in, given that the South is basically ground zero of sunbelt suburban sprawl.
I'm astonished (and so happy) that some crazy bible-thumping conservative city-haters never managed somehow to decimate the place out of shear anti-urban spite sometime over the last several decades.
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The South may be the epicenter of sprawl (although you will note that Levittown was a New York and Philadelphia sort of place), but it's been said before that when the South did urbanism, it did it right. The layout of the Savannah Historic District is considered to be one of the best and most functional urban plans in the world. It also helps that Savannah has had a historic preservation society since 1955, formed after several landmarks were demolished, to keep even more from falling.