Cities often describe their futures in the language of renewal, momentum, and turning points. In this episode, Waco’s current downtown redevelopment plan and a forgotten 1970s pedestrian mall reveal how civic vocabulary shapes expectations long before results are clear.

While words like “hope” and “inevitability” recur across decades, the city itself changes more slowly and in ways no rendering of new buildings and public spaces can predict.

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