MUSI GEOGRAPHY BE DESTINY?

摘要

My family is from St. Louis, and by some quirk of fate, all the houses we've lived in since the early 1800s are still standing. Every few years, typically when visitors are in town, we pile into the car for what my partner calls, only half-jokingly, the "Roots Tour." The itinerary begins with the oldest house, an Italianate hold-out on the edge of the downtown business district. The city radiates outward from there like an old-fashioned lady's fan, bounded only by the Mississippi River. But my family consistently moved due west, further so with each house and each generation, along a thin ribbon of neighborhoods where the rich, big businesses, top universities, cultural institutions, and professional sports venues are settled.