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Let's Shame the Awful Land Use of America's Ten Worst State Capitals

spirit warrior of the mist man
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Published on 21 Mar 2023 / In People and Blogs

It's amazing the different philosophies states demonstrate when choosing how and where to site their seats of government. Some have smaller footprints, with fewer offices co-located and less associated infrastructure; some take up large swaths of land, locating every possible state agency together in one place with enormous parking lots and stroads facilitating all the generated travel demand. Some are located in small cities, some in the largest city in the state, practically downtown. The upshot is, you see a LOT of different land use outcomes.

Today we're looking at the ten worst -- state capitals that have the most deleterious impacts on the cities they occupy. As always, this particular bottom ten list is a trojan horse for talking about all the good and bad impacts land use and transportation decisions have on the places we live -- this time, decisions being made directly by the governments of 50 states.

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Previous CityNerd Videos Referenced:
- Waterfront Freeway Malpractice, featuring Lake Shore Drive: https://youtu.be/RK0_zh7B-H4
- The 10 Ginormous Parking Lots of the US: https://youtu.be/Oqsk73g6tqI

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Resources:
- https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/new-development-plan-in-the-works-for-st-pauls-sears-site/
- https://www.zillow.com/home-values/6118/nashville-tn/
- https://www.zillow.com/home-values/10221/austin-tx/

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Images
- Missouri State Capitol (thumbnail) By KTrimble at English Wikipedia - Own work (KTrimble), CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15646618
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Morpheus 9-11
Morpheus 9-11 1 year ago

This guy lost me at "I am generally pro-government" After that, everything else out of this guy's opinion machine seems tainted and misconstrued to the point of some programmed brain dribble - in other words, just writing this comment is already a waste of time.

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spirit warrior of the mist man

good eye good sir i only posted the youtubers video to see how many view the video and either they make a comm,ent or not is up to them or maybe you even,but good eye sir,i can remove this video anytime and put up something cooler for others to view bwtter and make them see other youtub chsnnels being synced here as none of the videso that i synce here are my own =,but thanks for the nice comment and good to know that

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