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Article: San Antonio's Development Path Differs from Austin, Texas.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- June 7, 2004
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By Elizabeth Allen, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 7--San Antonio's downtown can seem like a crazy quilt of streets that meet at odd angles designed for no purpose -- except perhaps to disorient visitors.
But its designers had a vision, an Old World plan with plazas and public space. Beginning in 1718, the city was laid out to fit the geography of the river, of the creek and of the acequias in a winding manner that survives today.
Austin, a young city laid out by a new Republic in 1839 with straight streets leading from the Capitol down to the Colorado River, pulsed with investment and development in ...