The Rise and Fall of America's Most Promising City: St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis was once the fourth largest city in America, a booming river metropolis that hosted the world's largest World's Fair and produced the world's most famous beer. Then, through a combination of a fateful 1876 border decision, postwar white flight, and one of the most notorious urban planning failures in American history, the city lost nearly two thirds of its population in seventy years. This is the story of how a city built on the perfect geography squandered every advantage it had. Sources: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/great-... https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredg... https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/on-...