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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, [...] July 19th, 2008 | Tags: Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee, neighborhood, new york, nyc, walkability | Category: sprawl | 6 comments |
 printable viewphoto 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 [...] July 3rd, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, hyde park, planning, urban renewal, zoning | Category: planning, zoning | 3 comments |
printable viewPhoto 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 [...] June 12th, 2008 | Tags: block 37, Chicago, CTA, super station, transit, Transportation | Category: Transportation | Leave a comment |
printable viewI 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 [...] June 11th, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, chicago cubs, white sox, wrigley field | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |
printable viewStephen Smith at rationalitate picked up on a Wired article and posted Thomas Edison builds the first el: today is 125th anniversary of the debut of Thomas Edison’s elevated electric railway demonstration in Chicago. The project was financed with $2 million in private funds, through the newly-incorporated Electric Railway Company. It’s enough to [...] June 2nd, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, chicago's L, CTA, Electric Railway Company, private transit, Thomas Edison, transit, Transportation | Category: Transportation | 8 comments |
printable viewWelcome to the final post in the series discussing the consequences of rent control. Thank you to the subscribers who have patiently awaited each new post. I hope everyone found it enlightening. If you haven’t read the entire series, you can catch up with these links: Rent Control Part One: Microeconomics Lesson and [...] June 1st, 2008 | Tags: affordability, affordable housing, California, Chicago, Decontrol, development, Economics, evict, exclusionary zoning, FAR, Free-market, government, homeowners, housing, housing market, industrial, landlord, LIHTC, politics, property rights, property taxes, proposition 98, redistribution of wealth, rent control, rent regulation, rent stabilization, solutions, taxes, tenant, Vacancy, vacancy decontrol, vouchers, zoning | Category: rent control, zoning | One comment |
printable viewIt’s easier to look at the symptom: corruption, than treat the disease: government over-regulation: Chicago Tribune: Role of expediters under scrutiny as federal probe targets City Hall corruption The unsung and highly specialized role these private individuals play in the workings of city government gained notoriety last week when investigators revealed that for [...] May 28th, 2008 | Tags: bribery, bureaucracy, Chicago, construction, corruption, zoning | Category: corruption, zoning | 4 comments |
printable viewNBC5 has an update listing the people involved and video here: New Corruption Charges Hit Building, Zoning Departments Chicago Tribune: U.S. to announce charges against 15 in city bribe-taking probe (thanks to Dan M. for the tip) Federal authorities are set to announce charges Thursday against 15 people, including seven City of Chicago [...] May 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, corruption, development, downzoning, NIMBY, politics, property rights, Tony Rezko, zoning | Category: corruption, zoning | 14 comments |
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