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Originally Posted by 10023
It looks reasonably intact, but like most older American cities, it seems to have really suffered from road widening projects, etc. Those streets downtown and around campus should all be one lane each way with no street parking.
And being there I felt that it’s not nearly as intact as it should be, both because of parking lots and urban renewal, with the latter including misguided postwar attempts by the university to build “modern” facilities (read: hideous, out-of-scale brutalism). Bunch of big parking garages too.
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The sad thing is, as remuddled as the city is, New Haven is by far the most intact city in Connecticut. I dunno why my home state suffered so badly during the urban renewal era. Providence is only a little bigger than the major Connecticut cities, but a lot more of its old urban core survived.