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Originally Posted by Yuri
Despite the massive depopulation, in one way or another, most of American cities managed to keep their Downtowns alive and relevant. Cities like São Paulo and Johannesburg had their original CBD wiped away completely.
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It seems that RenCen was planned as a "city within a city" concept. It was criticized because the rest of downtown Detroit was performing so badly with vacant buildings and RenCen sort of poached many of the good office and retail tenants and was perceived as a border wall from the 'bad' Detroit. But the 'city within a city' concept itself has not been discredited. It seems to me that Century City in west LA is a similar "city within a city", but I have not heard much criticism about it. I am curious - what was there before?