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The Urbanophile
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Passionate About Cities
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Labor Day Open Thread: What Do Successful Lower Income Neighborhoods Look Like?
It’s Labor Day weekend in the United States, and I’ll be taking it off, returning next week. In the meantime, I’ll leave this open thread for your discussions on what successful low income and working class neighborhoods would look like in our cities.
This was a topic that came up during conversation over Asian food with [...]
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Richard Layman: Richard’s Rules for Restaurant Driven Development
[ I've linked to Richard Layman's wonderful Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space blog many times. He writes on a variety of topics in an always insightful way, but I'm particularly impressed with his knowledge of urban commercial district revitalization. I was privileged to get to tour Logan Square with him during one of [...]
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Urban Universities Done Right: Chicago’s “Loop U”
Many American cities have focused on university based development as a catalyst for their downtowns and urban spaces. Louisville has promoted the growth of its university affiliated hospital complex on the east side of downtown. Indianapolis and Chicago both built major urban renewal type campuses – IUPUI and UIC respectively. The University of Wisconsin anchors [...]
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Urbanoscope
The emphasis on little neighbourhoods, the stoop, local shops and walking distances, the ‘human scale’ only tells part of the story of the city – after all, these things can be found in villages and small towns. All cities need sublimity, a touch of holy terror, a defiance of human scale that asserts connection to [...]
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The Physical Evolution of Infrastructure
Thinking about recent posts on the Metra bridge project and long term parking meter leases, I was reminded of a conversation I had with Professor David Solzman at UIC. He made an interesting comment that we need to find a way to create infrastructure that can physically evolve over time at reasonable cost.
Our fundamental approaches [...]
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Kindred Feeds 
