Waiting for toledo’s tomorrow
“So why don’t we live in a supersized version of Paul Block and Bel Geddes’s model city? The short answer is that deindustrialization, suburbanization and overall regional decline sapped Toledo of the tax dollars needed to execute this sort of vision. But maybe it’s a good thing that we don’t live in their Toledo. Mid-century master planners were, after all, notorious for pursuing their plans with little regard for the everyday residents in their way.”
Photo and cover image courtesy of Life (September 17, 1945).