Large-scale redevelopment is often pitched as a strategy for reviving struggling downtowns. Yet such projects with their acres of asphalt and tenuous connections to surrounding environs are usually poor substitutes for the organic neighborhoods they displace, argues Patty Heyda, an associate professor of urban design at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Community leaders in St. Louis are determined to keep fighting developer Paul McKee’s use of Homer G. Phillps’ name for a north St. Louis health center.