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St. Louis could position itself as new-century city. Because of a decade of inflated housing markets, a change in population migration patterns has emerged. U.S. Census estimates indicate that from 2000-2006, almost 4 million people migrated from the most unaffordable housing markets to more affordable markets. The census estimates show unprecedented in-migration to more affordable Midwestern and non-coastal Eastern metropolitan areas that previously had experienced long-term out-migration. There is much talk about reimagining the role of the post-industrial American city in the coming decades. Usually, sustainability is at the center of the discussion. Alex Krieger, chairman of the department of urban planning and design at Harvard, wrote recently that most new ideas for the 21st-century city will emerge from older cities like New Orleans, St. Louis, Cleveland, Newark and Detroit. |
