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Home » urban planning

Tag: urban planning

Posted inArts & Culture

Gentrifier is a positive step forward in the gentrification debate

by Annie Howard October 9, 2017August 18, 2021

A new book succeeds by avoiding simple solutions to complicated problems.

Posted inFilm

Boy, do we need Jane Jacobs now

by J.R. Jones May 11, 2017August 18, 2021

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City profiles the author who battled urban expressways and high-rise housing.

Posted inBlogs

Police officers elect new union president, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd April 14, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, the passenger dragged from a United Airlines plane at O’Hare reportedly suffered a concussion, lost two front teeth, and had his nose broken.

Posted inArts & Culture

Transforming Pullman into a national park

by Aimee Levitt November 2, 2016August 18, 2021

The Positioning Pullman project aims to ease the south-side neighborhood’s transition.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Chicago alleys are full of utilitarian wonder

by Ryan Smith June 23, 2016August 18, 2021

The city’s 1,900 miles of backstreets make Chicago the “Alley Capital of America.”

Posted inNews & Politics

This week’s Chicagoan: Kelwin Harris, DJ and former assistant to Mayor Daley

by Anne Ford June 16, 2014August 18, 2021

Kelwin Harris: “Was Mayor Daley intimidating like a guy-beating-on-a-table, in-your-face kind of thing? No.”

Lathrop Homes, one of the country's first public housing developments and the second in Chicago, was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
Posted inNews & Politics

The fight to preserve a model public housing project

by Maya Dukmasova June 12, 2014August 18, 2021

Lathrop Homes has long been one of CHA’s most diverse and successful properties. But today it’s a shell of its former self.

Posted inBlogs

South-side residents fend off pawnshop plan

by Mick Dumke October 23, 2012August 19, 2021

In the face of community opposition, plans are withdrawn for a pawnshop at 79th and Western

21st Ward alderman Howard Brookins Jr. says of Big Pawn owner Alvin Bell Jr., "He's a decent guy doing a decent thing. He runs a family business."
Posted inNews & Politics

The people v. the pawnshop

by Mick Dumke October 4, 2012August 19, 2021

What one vacant lot says about the future of devlopment in the city

Unfinished Spaces: A documentary about Cuba's National Schools of Art, a beautiful building let down by communist rule.
Posted inFilm

Music Box presents Architecture & Design Film Festival

by Chicago Reader April 12, 2012August 19, 2021

Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival

Unfinished Spaces: A beautiful building lost on communist bureaucrats
Posted inFilm

Music Box presents Architecture & Design Film Festival

by Chicago Reader April 12, 2012August 19, 2021

Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival

Unfinished Spaces: A beautiful building done in by communist bureaucrats
Posted inFilm

Music Box presents Architecture & Design Film Festival

by Chicago Reader April 12, 2012August 19, 2021

Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival

Unfinished Spaces: A beautiful building done in by communist bureaucrats
Posted inFilm

Music Box presents Architecture & Design Film Festival

by Chicago Reader April 12, 2012August 19, 2021

Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival

Unfinished Spaces: A beautiful building lost on communist bureaucrats
Posted inFilm

Stories about storeys: Architecture & Design Film Festival

by Chicago Reader April 11, 2012August 19, 2021

Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival

Posted inBlogs

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth at the Siskel

by Sam Worley August 4, 2011August 19, 2021

A new documentary examines St. Louis’s bygone Pruitt-Igoe housing projects.

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