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Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Oct 9, 2017
Recommended
Gentrifier is a positive step forward in the gentrification debate

A new book succeeds by avoiding simple solutions to complicated problems.
- By Tanner Howard
- Tags: Lit Feature, Gentrifier, University of Toronto Press, gentrification, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, Marc Lamont Hill, urban planning, poverty, segregation, books, Recommended

Film, Movie Review May 11, 2017
Recommended Video
Boy, do we need Jane Jacobs now

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City profiles the author who battled urban expressways and high-rise housing.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, Matt Tyrnauer, Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Robert Moses, Washington Square Park, West Greenwich Village, SoHo, Architectural Forum, Robert A.M. Stern, Geoffrey West, Paul Goldberger, Thomas J. Campanella, Alexander Garvin, Mayor Robert F. Wagner, lower Manhattan expressway, city planning, urban planning, public housing, high-rise construction, historical preservation, documentaries, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 14, 2017
Video
Police officers elect new union president, and other Chicago news

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.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Chicago Police Department, Fraternal Order of Police, Dean Angelo, Kevin Graham, police issues, O'Hare International Airport, United Airlines, David Dao, City Council, City Council Black Caucus, Roderick Sawyer, Rahm Emanuel, Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Independent Police Review Authority, Charlie Trotter, Smyth, Loyalist, restaurants, food, Chicago Public Schools, urban planning, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Video

Arts & Culture, Architecture Nov 2, 2016
Transforming Pullman into a national park

The Positioning Pullman project aims to ease the south-side neighborhood’s transition.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Architecture, Pullman, Positioning Pullman, Richard Wilson, National Park Service, Chicago Humanities Festival, urban planning

Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 23, 2016
Critics' Picks
Chicago alleys are full of utilitarian wonder

The city’s 1,900 miles of backstreets make Chicago the “Alley Capital of America.”
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Reasons to love Chicago, alleys, Grid, urban planning, urban development, Los Angeles, Portland, City in a Garden, Ohio River, Victorian, National Land Ordinance of 1785, Dickensian, Critics' Picks

News & Politics, Chicagoans Jun 16, 2014
This week's Chicagoan: Kelwin Harris, DJ and former assistant to Mayor Daley

"Was Mayor Daley intimidating like a guy-beating-on-a-table, in-your-face kind of thing? No."
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: Chicagoans, Kelwin Harris, Richard M. Daley, Auburn-Gresham, south side, Lincoln Park, Francis Parker High School, hip-hop culture, hip-hop, Cornell University, urban planning, Harvard University, Boston, Santa Monica, consulting, meetings, DJing, weddings, Sherrick McManis, Chicago Bears

News & Politics, Feature Jun 12, 2014
The fight to preserve a model public housing project

Lathrop Homes, on the western edge of Lincoln Park, has long been one of the Chicago Housing Authority's most diverse and successful properties. But today it's a shell of its former self.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Julia C. Lathrop Homes, Lathrop Homes, CHA, Chicago Housing Authority, public housing, Bucktown, Roscoe Village, Public Works Administration, New Deal, National Register of Historic Places, Miguel Suarez, development, immigrants, diversity, architecture, Lolita Gonzalez, Richard M. Daley, mixed-income communities, Lathrop Community Partners, redevelopment, LCP, Molly Metzger, Washington University, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, housing choice vouchers, Tiffney George, Near North High School, Cabrini-Green, Section 8 housing, North Lawndale, Boys and Girls Club, Titus Kerby, Lathrop Local Advisory Council, Anna Capps, Marshall Field's, Toni Dixon, Alcott College Prep, preservation, Chicago Housing Initiative, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, HUD, Dorothy Gautreaux, Gautreaux case, Altgeld Gardens, Chicago Urban League, West Side Federation, ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Schiff Hardin & Waite, Alexander Polikoff, discrimination, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, BPI, memoirs, books, neighborhoods, segregation, unemployment, Hal Baron, Len Rubinowitz, Northwestern University, Lawrence Vale, urban planning, urban design, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Mary Pattillo, John McDermott, LSNA, housing, land use, Robert Whitfield, Real Estate Acquisition Program, REAP

Blogs, Bleader Oct 23, 2012
South-side residents fend off pawnshop plan

In the face of community opposition, plans are withdrawn for a pawnshop at 79th and Western
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Neighborhoods, Politics, Clout City, News, pawnshops, poverty, urban planning, zoning, Cash America, Marie Tyse, Lona Lane, Auburn-Gresham, Wrightwood, job creation, Tanya White, zoning board of appeals

News & Politics, Feature Oct 4, 2012
The people v. the pawnshop

How one vacant lot became a battleground between the politically powerful pawnshop industry and the outspoken residents of a middle-class Chicago neighborhood—and what that says about the future of development in the city
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, pawnshops, poverty, urban planning, zoning, Cash America, Marie Tyse, Lona Lane, Auburn-Gresham, Wrightwood, job creation, TIFs, investment, Leonard DeVille, Howard Brookins Jr., Big Pawn, EZ Pawn, Ed Burke

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 11, 2012
Stories about storeys: Architecture & Design Film Festival

The third annual festival at the Music Box
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Architecture & Design Film Festival, architecture, design, Florent Tillon, RoboCop, Detroit, urban exploration, gentricfication, Charles Eames, Ray Eames, Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey, Erich Mendelsohn, Duki Dror, Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project, St. Louis, urban planning, Chad Freidrichs, National Schools of Art, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Alysa Nahamias, Benjamin Murray

Blogs, Bleader Aug 4, 2011
Video
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth at the Siskel

A new documentary examines St. Louis's bygone Pruitt-Igoe housing projects.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Film, Politics, Clout City, Pruitt-Igoe, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History, Cate Plys, Lynn Becker, urban planning, public housing, Cabrini-Green, Ben Weese, Gene Siskel Film Center, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 18, 2010
Parking Meters and the Psychology of Driving

Why people think walking takes longer than driving, and how to increase cycling by getting rid of parking spaces.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Bicycling, Chicagoland, Cycling, Chicago parking meters, driver psychology, urban planning, bicycling, Dutch bikes, Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic, Why We Drive The Way We Do

Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2009
Econ Roundup: More Bad News
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, unemployment, Cabrini-Green, economics, Greg Mankiw, Megan Cottrell, urban planning, land use, commuter rail, U3 vs U6

Blogs, Bleader Jul 21, 2009
Eve of destruction for Michael Reese Hospital
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Architecture, Visual Art, Politics, Clout City, Michael Reese Hospital, 2016, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Olympics, Mayor Daley, Toni Preckwinkle, politics, architecture, Lynn Becker, Walter Gropius, Deanna Isaacs, urban planning, Olivet Baptist Church

Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2009
On plans big and little
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Architecture, Daniel Burnham, Plan of Chicago, architecture, Whereblog, Chicago, Chicago history, urban planning, Make no little plans, Bill Savage

Blogs, Bleader Jan 14, 2007
Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs, an uncategorizable urban visionary, is remembered in a new biography.
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Books, Jane Jacobs, Alexis Sparberg Alexiou, Urban planning

Arts & Culture, Book Review Dec 8, 2005
Some Like It Messy

A UIC professor argues that sprawl isn’t so bad - just misunderstood.
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Book Review, Robert Bruegmann, UIC, Sprawl: A Compact History, urban planning, suburbanization

Arts & Culture, Book Review Apr 1, 2004
Operation Urban Blight

How city planners helped keep their military counterparts in business.
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Book Review, Jennifer S. Light, Jennifer Light, Cold War, urban planning, From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America, dispersal planning

News & Politics, Feature Sep 5, 1996
Up Against the Sprawl

Grassroots Groups are Fighting the Expansion That's Sucking the City Dry. Should They Bother?
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Feature, history, sprawl, urban sprawl, Richard M. Daley, Richard J. Daley, urban planning, interstate highway system, suburbs, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, NIPC, Chicago Area Transportation Study

News & Politics, Essay Sep 5, 1991
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.
- By James Krohe Jr.
- Tags: Essay, State Street, traffic, urban planning, transit malls, malls, U.S. Department of Transportation, Greater State Street Council, streets, Crain's Chicago Business, department stores, Daniel P. Coffey & Associates, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, streetscapes, Ernest Brown, Harold Washington Public Library, Lake Street, Oak Park

News & Politics, Neighborhood News May 3, 1990
Heavy traffic: cutting through the problem in Ravenswood Manor
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Neighborhood News, Ravenswood Manor, Ravenswood Manor Improvement Association, Holly Birnbaum, John LaMotte, Manor Avenue, Wilson Avenue, traffic, cut-through traffic, speeding, stop signs, one-way streets, John Friedman, 40th Ward, Patrick O'Connor, Thomas Weaver, traffic planning, urban planning

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

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

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.

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

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

"Was Mayor Daley intimidating like a guy-beating-on-a-table, in-your-face kind of thing? No."

Lathrop Homes, on the western edge of Lincoln Park, has long been one of the Chicago Housing Authority's most diverse and successful properties. But today it's a shell of its former self.

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

How one vacant lot became a battleground between the politically powerful pawnshop industry and the outspoken residents of a middle-class Chicago neighborhood—and what that says about the future of development in the city

The third annual festival at the Music Box

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

Why people think walking takes longer than driving, and how to increase cycling by getting rid of parking spaces.

Jane Jacobs, an uncategorizable urban visionary, is remembered in a new biography.

A UIC professor argues that sprawl isn’t so bad - just misunderstood.

How city planners helped keep their military counterparts in business.

Grassroots Groups are Fighting the Expansion That's Sucking the City Dry. Should They Bother?

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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