Cook Co. sheriff won’t evict in foreclosures from Associated Press
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says he’s ordered his deputies to stop taking part in evictions of properties that have been foreclosed upon.
Dart says the change goes into effect Thursday. He says the decision comes because many of those being evicted are people who’ve been faithfully [...]
affordability in New York City
Play with the HUD-Brookings Institution’s new index maps here:
The Housing + Transportation Affordability Index, developed by CNT and its collaborative partners, the Center for Transit Oriented Development (CTOD), is an innovative tool that measures the true affordability of housing. Planners, lenders, and most consumers traditionally measure housing affordability as 30 [...]
I’m a little slow picking up on this one, but the Wall Street Journal recently interviewed Harvard Urban Economist, Ed Glaeser. Here are some excerpts from State of the City:
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: What effect will higher gasoline prices have on urban planning in the U.S.?
MR. GLAESER: I would be very surprised to see [...]
I enjoyed this short video that compares Chicago’s Lincoln Square, where I have lived and Buffalo Grove, which is a suburb similar to where I grew up.
The video was produced by CEOs for Cities, a Chicago based organization that advocates for cities. Their website gives this description:
A new analysis shows that high gas prices [...]
A recent Wall Street Journal blog post refers to a website called Walk Score. Walk Score will let you know the walkability of a neighborhood based on the address you type in. The site also features ranking of cities and neighborhoods.
Here are the city rankings:
1. San Francisco, CA
2. New York, NY
3. Boston, MA
4. [...]
photo by flickr user mandus
I recently came across a great blog, Hyde Park Urbanist, which focuses on urbanism in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Hyde Park is located along Lake Michigan on the South Side and is the home of The University of Chicago as well as Frank LLoyd Wright’s famous Robie House [...]
Photo by flickr user mss2400
Thanks, DBM for the tip:
Faced with runaway costs, the CTA and City Hall slammed the emergency brakes Wednesday on ambitious plans to build a “super station” in downtown’s Block 37 to speed express trains to both Chicago’s airports.
A combined $213 million has been spent on the project, yet there is not [...]
I received a message from a reader with a link:
Probably not as interesting to your NY readers, but Wrigley is back on the market.
Can’t say I like the cubs, but you have to give credit (?) to their fans, 100 years of painful loss and they still love the cubs.
I’m guessing most of the fans [...]
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