The crimes of previous generations for Urban Renewal will never be forgiven.

I’m digging deeper into the architecture that Minneapolis, in particular Gateway District, had and it makes me so completely furious. We had a thriving city, and in mid century we decided to create a suburban office park instead. We haven’t built the city back to this day.

What’s interesting is my parents weren’t even born when this building (or most of Gateway) was destroyed. When I tell my family I live downtown, all they think of is parking lots and unsafe empty streets. But, it’s not their fault. It’s what their generation was told to accept.

The worst part is even as we rebuild Gateway with new towers today, those towers are still never as good as what we had. Even Gateway Tower is car-centric, it’s also anti-human scale and material. It’s fucking bizarre we still haven’t learned we need livable cities.