St. Louis, Missouri, Is Rebounding From A Long Decline By Focusing On Its Historic Heritage

Don’t for a moment think that the city fathers of St. Louis weren’t thinking of Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, New York’s Statue of Liberty or San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge when they put up their 630-foot tall Gateway Arch. If iconic is an over-used word these days, none better applies to the Arch, finished in 1965...