Welcome to the neighborhood(s)! Stepping lightly beyond the gates of Louisiana State University, the neighborhood unfurls in contrasting portraits. Wide oak-lined streets give way to narrow blocks where student apartments rise beside old homes. In these neighborhoods, there is beauty, culture, and history, divergent architecture, and husbandry. The juxtaposition is striking wealth and modesty, history, renewal, and neglect, all existing side by side. Baton Rouge has long been shaped by geography and history, from the Mississippi River dividing parishes to decades of segregation and uneven urban growth. This photo story is not meant to provide answers, but to invite questions: What does it mean to live in a city where such differences dance shoulder to shoulder?
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