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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

A Cardinal That Does Not Look That Red: Analysis Of A Political Polarization Trend In The St. Louis Area, Clémence Nogret-Pradier Jul 2015

A Cardinal That Does Not Look That Red: Analysis Of A Political Polarization Trend In The St. Louis Area, Clémence Nogret-Pradier

Missouri Policy Journal

The political polarization of metropolitan areas is occurring widely within the United States. By highlighting the political polarization that has been underway for decades in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin metropolitan area, this can serve as a way to understand political polarization within the St Louis metropolitan area. This article uses political and demographic data from the Missouri Information Spatial Data Information Service to take a close look at developments in the St Louis metropolitan area. Geographic Information System (GIS) was used and the maps were created using Archmap. The results suggest that political polarization is occurring within the St Louis metropolitan …


One Development Project, Two Economic Tales: The St. Louis Cardinals’ Busch Stadium And Ballpark Village, Eric Click Sep 2014

One Development Project, Two Economic Tales: The St. Louis Cardinals’ Busch Stadium And Ballpark Village, Eric Click

Missouri Policy Journal

This article focuses primarily on the interrelated economic development project of the St. Louis Cardinals’ new Busch Stadium (2006) and Ballpark Village (2014). While the new Busch Stadium officially opened on April 10, 2006, and Ballpark Village officially opened on March 27, 2014, nearly eight years later, since the opening of Ballpark Village only included the completion of Phase 1, this interrelated development is actually ongoing and yet to reach fully planned and promised project completion. While originally proposed and envisioned as one simultaneous but layered project, the building and realization of the two entities eventually became two separate but …