I stopped reading this article after the first example of Denver. I would not trust this article not being mostly propaganda because, if one looks in detail at

I stopped reading this article after the first example of Denver. I would not trust this article not being mostly propaganda because, if one looks in detail at the first pair of photos, they are not close to displaying the same area. One third of the right of the 2014 photo shows where the grid changes directions with a very large N-S road. The one on the left from 1953 is shifted far to the left to where this part of Denver is not in the picture. It is hard to tell if even the scales (also not shown) of the photos are the same. Edit: I decided to look at the rest of the photos after writing this comment and it is obvious in some of the other photos that the author somehow thinks it is useful to have photos of before and after that don't even overlap at all. Oakland, for example, has maybe 10% overlap with one showing mostly west Oakland and the other showing the Lake Merritt area. Maybe my browser is just not displaying things right. I'll interpret these strange before and after images that way and move on.