Why people think walking takes longer than driving, and how to increase cycling by getting rid of parking spaces.
Tag: urban planning
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Econ Roundup: More Bad News
By all accounts, Lenise has no hope. Everyone has told her that she’s out of luck. Because she signed the order of possession, there’s no reversing it now. * Let’s start with some microeconomics – Megan Cottrell has an outstanding post about a Cabrini-Green resident who is facing homelessness after the confluence of a couple […]
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Eve of destruction for Michael Reese Hospital
Daley gives us but one choice for securing Chicago’s economic future, a choice between stagnation and an Olympics that lasts all of several weeks during one summer seven years away. He’s become like the drunk telling his family that their only salvation is, not in his sobering up and getting a grip, but in the […]
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On plans big and little
[Kind of a repost. Getting worked like a speedbag today.] “Make no little plans” – Daniel Burnham. Or not. It’s a pernicious little quote because there’s nothing qualitative about it – it demands that plans only be not little (I’m unaware of Burnham’s official position on medium-sized plans). But Burnham said a lot of other […]
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Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs, an uncategorizable urban visionary, is remembered in a new biography.
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Some Like It Messy
A UIC professor argues that sprawl isn’t so bad – just misunderstood.
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Operation Urban Blight
How city planners helped keep their military counterparts in business.
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Up Against the Sprawl
Grassroots Groups are Fighting the Expansion That’s Sucking the City Dry. Should They Bother?
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Cityscape: The Plan to Save State Street
For $60 million the Greater State Street Council wants to demall it, restreet it, recar, rethink, and revive it as the heart of a new Loop. It’s a great plan—for 1985.
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Heavy traffic: cutting through the problem in Ravenswood Manor
It’s a normal rush-hour afternoon in the small northwest-side community called Ravenswood Manor. A van, speeding over the bumpy Wilson Avenue bridge, spins out of control. Kids on bicycles dodge the cars that drift through the stop signs. Intersections of residential tree-lined streets are jammed with traffic. After more than a decade of such aggravation, […]