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• ▼2012 (27)
  • ▼February (4)
    • Keeping Up With the Urbanophile
    • A Visit to Youngstown by Joe Baur
    • Replay: Brookings' New Geography of Urban America
    • From Naptown to Super City
  • ►January (23)
    • The Software of Placemaking by Rod Stevens
    • Urban Data the Easy Way
    • Do Unto Localities As You Hate the Federal Government Doing Unto You
    • The Case for Quality of Space
    • Ten 2012 Trends That Will Affect Planning and Economic Development by Chuck Eckenstahler
    • Providence and the Virtues of Scale
    • Can Detroit Build Its Way Back to Prosperity?
    • Silicon Valley vs. Silicon Alley, Economic Security, Guadalajara
    • Vancouver: An Olympic Urbanist Preview by Jarrett Walker
    • Replay: Neighborhood Redevelopment and the Downsides of Consolidation
    • The Shifting Landscape of Diversity in Metro America
    • Indiana's Bridge Deal Boondoggle, Part 4 - A Better Plan
    • Murmansk in Motion
    • Detroit: A City on the Move
    • Indiana's Bridge Deal Boondoggle, Part 3 - INDOT's Mini-Big Dig
    • How Demolition Came to Mean Stabilization by Rob Pitingolo
    • Indiana's Bridge Deal Boondoggle, Part 2: Hoosiers to Pay Even More With Tolling
    • Indiana's Bridge Deal Boondoggle, Part 1: A Financial Fiasco
    • Faith and City Planning
    • The Urbanophile 2011 Year in Review
    • 60 Minutes: There Goes the Neighborhood
    • This Is Sprawl, Pittsburgh Edition
    • No, Freeways Are Not Dead by Keep Houston Houston
• ►2011 (162)
  • ►December (11)
    • Merry Christmas Miscellany
    • Chicago: What's Changed? What Hasn't? by Richard C. Longworth
    • Indiana Abandons Long Range Transportation Planning
    • What Does Globalization Mean to Non-Global Cities?
    • Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and Silicon Subways
    • Indy to Repurpose Stadium Seats at Bus Stops
    • Replay: Migration - Geographies in Conflict
    • Traffic in Ho Chi Minh City
    • Three Years Down, 72 More to Go On Chicago Parking Meter Lease by Michelle Stenzel
    • Is the Indianapolis Superbowl Shuffle Video Really That Bad?
    • How to Revitalize Your Urban Core Neighborhoods
  • ►November (13)
    • Bad US Rail Practices and What It Means for FRA Regulations by Alon Levy
    • Thanksgiving Day Open Thread: What Are You Thankful For About Your City?
    • Replay: Is It Game Over for Atlanta?
    • Jan Gehl on Cities
    • Tory Gattis on Social Systems Architecture and Why It Matters
    • Summit for NYC Videos Now Posted + Lathrop Homes Radio Segment
    • New York: The State of the MTA's Mega-Projects by Carson Qing
    • Chicago: Lathrop Homes Redevelopment Public Kickoff
    • Back to the City
    • Live State Policy Difference Experiment in Progress
    • A Year in New York
    • Are Food Deserts Exaggerated? by Angie Schmitt
    • Review: Urbanized - A Film by Gary Hustwit
  • ►October (12)
    • Toronto Tempo
    • Cities as Software by Marcus Westbury
    • Announcing the Walk Indianapolis Architectural Tours
    • Indiana Not Seeing Economic Refugee Surge from Surrounding States
    • Rahm Emanuel Brings Congestion Pricing to Chicago
    • A Beginning Agenda for Making Smart Growth Legal by Kaid Benfield
    • Replay: A Civic Going Out of Business Sale
    • The Witold Rybczynski Interview by Brendan Crain
    • Review: The Gated City by Ryan Avent
    • The Cost of Congestion, The Value of Transit
    • Race Matters in Milwaukee – Part 4: Segregation and Education by Nathaniel Holton
    • Globalization and the Airport
  • ►September (16)
    • Replay: Planning and Free Market Density
    • San Francisco: The City
    • Race Matters in Milwaukee – Part 3: The Effects of Milwaukee's Segregation by Nathaniel Holton
    • A Decade in College Degree Attainment
    • The Texas Story Is Real
    • Hire the Urbanophile
    • Race Matters in Milwaukee - Part 2: The Causes of Milwaukee's Segregation by Nathaniel Holton
    • Will Sagrada Família Be Mankind's Last Ever Great Artistic Statement for God?
    • New York Stands High
    • 2010 GDP Data Shows Nascent Recovery in Many American Metros
    • Race Matters In Milwaukee – Part 1B: How Segregated Is Milwaukee? (con't) by Nathaniel Holton
    • Remembering 9/11
    • Indy: Help Keep the Historic "Georgia St." Name
    • LA Light
    • Race Matters In Milwaukee - Part 1A: How Segregated Is Milwaukee? by Nathaniel Holton
    • Replay: Chicago - A Declaration of Independence
  • ►August (16)
    • VC Investments and More Thoughts on the Programmer Shortage
    • Is There Really a Developer Drought?
    • “Sick Housing Market” Ranking Shows Why Many “Top-10” Lists Should Be Deep Sixed by Drew Klacik
    • Beer and Evolving Urban Culture
    • Alex Steffen TED Talk on the Shareable Future of Cities
    • Miriam in the Midwest by Miriam Fathalla
    • Building Suburbs That Last #6 - Limit Restrictive Covenants
    • Megabus - King of the Road
    • Commercial District Revitalization and Return on Investment by Richard Layman
    • Replay: The Brand Promise of Indianapolis
    • A Decade in Metro Area Personal Income Growth
    • The Problem With Boosterism by Angie Schmitt
    • The Shifting Urban Geography of Black America
    • A Decade in State GDP Growth
    • That's One Way to Make Sure Nobody Parks in a Bike Lane
    • Bizarrchitecture by Brendan Crain
  • ►July (13)
    • Replay: Migration Matters
    • Geoffrey West TED Talk on the Surprising Math of Cities
    • How Urbanist Visionaries Can Muck Up Transit by Jarrett Walker
    • New Data Shows Slowing Migration in America
    • Let's Face It, High Speed Rail Is Dead
    • Desolation Angel by Detroitblogger John
    • Why States Matter
    • Replay: Do Cities Need a Creative Director?
    • Chicago/OT: Buy My Condo!
    • More Privatization Good News in Indiana
    • Are States an Anachronism?
    • The Coolest and Best City Videos
    • The Urgency of Reforming the Federal Railroad Administration by Alon Levy
  • ►June (13)
    • Replay: Picture-Perfect Portland?
    • Why Aren’t We Building ‘Emotionally Connected’ Cities? A Guest Post by Peter Kageyama
    • Employment Challenges Facing Smaller City Downtowns
    • Did INDOT Cancel the Remainder of the Northeast Corridor Project?
    • Five Innovation Myths Applied to Urbanism by Brendan Crain
    • Replay: Resolving the Paradox of Success
    • Job Migration from the Suburbs to Downtown
    • The Cleveland Comeback: Version 5.0 by Richey Piiparinen
    • On Urban Education
    • Announcing the Indianapolis Neighborhood Map
    • Aerotropolis: An Interview with Greg Lindsay by Geoff Manaugh
    • Replay: Metropolitan Linkages
    • The Taxi As Public Transportation by Drew Austin
  • ►May (7)
    • Come to the Urbanophile Farewell Night Out in Indianapolis
    • How I Think About Cities
    • Chicago: Out of the Loop
    • The New Provincials by Jason Tinkey
    • Learning to Love "Naptown"
    • Where Is the Good Government We Need?
    • The Wars Between the States by Richard C. Longworth
  • ►April (11)
    • Replay: The Return of the Native
    • Amtrak Should Innovate with Hiawatha Service Pricing by Jeramey Jannene
    • A Ruralophillic Detour
    • Brutalism: Worth Saving? by Brendan Crain
    • This Is Why We're Broke
    • Replay: The Power of Greenfield Economics
    • The Sprawl Bubble by Chuck Banas
    • Does Privatization Actually Transfer Risk Away from Government?
    • Le Flâneur
    • Ohio's Geographic Advantages
    • The 31-Flavors of Urban Redevelopment by Rod Stevens
  • ►March (16)
    • Census 2010 Offers Portrait of America in Transition
    • Conscious Urbanism: The Heidelberg Project by Brendan Crain
    • Why Is Government in This Business Again?
    • Replay: The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dörner
    • It's 2011, Do You Understand Your Human Capital Networks Yet?
    • Beyond Brain Drain
    • Urbanoscope
    • Metro/County Census Results So Far (Plus a Brief Look at Jobs)
    • Pushing the Racial Dialogue in Cincinnati by Tifanei Moyer
    • Civic Iconography Done Right - Chicago's City Flag
    • Replay: The City as a Platform
    • Thematic Maps Made Easy
    • The Rupture
    • Urbanoscope
    • A Few Studies
    • Saint Jane by Will Wiles
  • ►February (18)
    • A Better Way to Find, Look At, Analyze and Display Civic Data
    • Replay: Transit Ridership Framework
    • New Metro GDP Data Released
    • Census 2010 and Urbanizing Indiana
    • Collective Pride, Worthy Choices by John L. Krauss
    • The Mobility Bank
    • Urbanoscope
    • The Big City CBD Advantage
    • Chicago Takes a Census Shellacking
    • Hoping Detroit Fails by Jim Russell
    • Super-Regionalism in Kentucky
    • Replay: Is Nashville the Next Boomtown of the New South?
    • Imported from Detroit
    • Welcome to the Urban Revolution (Part Two) by Evan O'Neil
    • The Problem of Innovation
    • Urbanoscope
    • Can Chicago Get Out of Its Parking Meter Lease?
    • Welcome to the Urban Revolution (Part One) by Evan O'Neil
  • ►January (16)
    • Indianapolis Must Reinvent Itself Again
    • Replay: The Importance of Social Structures to Urban Success
    • The Urban Energy Efficiency Retrofit Challenge
    • Yes There Are Grocery Stores in Detroit by James Griffioen
    • The Urgency of Reform
    • Urbanoscope
    • A Better Way to Look at Data - Beta Testers Wanted
    • Erie Expatriates Seeking Jobs…in South Korea by Kristi Gandrud
    • Chicago: The Cost of Clout
    • Replay: A Tale of Two Blizzards
    • Century of the City
    • Yes, We Do Need to Build More Roads
    • Place Is the Space by Ben Schulman
    • Failure to Communicate: Accentuate the Positive
    • Urbanoscope
    • 2010 Urbanophile Year in Review
• ►2010 (210)
  • ►December (16)
    • Urbanoscope
    • Taking Chicago Transit from Good to Great, Part Five - Getting It Done
    • Taking Chicago Transit from Good to Great, Part Four - Paying for It
    • Census 2010 National and State Results Released
    • Does Policy Matter?
    • Replay: What Is a Strategy?
    • The Silicon Valley Advantage
    • Bruce Katz at the Brookings Global Metro Summit
    • Taking Chicago Transit from Good to Great, Part Three - Cost Control and Governance
    • Minneapolis-St. Paul: White, Liberal, and Cold
    • Urbanoscope
    • State GDP Performance
    • Taking Chicago Transit from Good to Great, Part Two - Raising the Bar on Design
    • College Degree Density Revisited
    • Replay: "They're Not Current"
    • New York City's Taxi of Tomorrow
  • ►November (16)
    • Taking Chicago Transit from Good to Great, Part One - Building the Vision
    • Urbanoscope
    • Thanksgiving Open Thread: What Are You Thankful For About Your City?
    • Building Suburbs that Last #5 - Redevelopment Insurance
    • Replay: Louisville - An Identity Crisis
    • European Urban Quality of Life
    • After Daley's Retirement, Chicago Needs a New Approach by Greg Hinz
    • Are People Really Fleeing Shrinking Cities?
    • Urbanoscope
    • Indy: Livability Starts Now
    • Pittsburgh and the Magic of Failure by Ben Schulman
    • Religion and the City
    • Replay: A Better Road to Clean Water Act Compliance
    • The Privatization-Industrial Complex
    • Universal Fare Media
    • Can Global Cities Work? by Richard C. Longworth
  • ►October (16)
    • Urbanoscope
    • Open Thread: World Class Chicago
    • Core City Educational Attainment
    • Matthew Mourning: Random Thoughts on the Cult of Destruction in St. Louis
    • Piercing the Narrative
    • Replay: What's Killing California?
    • The Asset Trap
    • Pittsburgh City Council Votes Down Parking Meter Privatization
    • Drew Austin: Against Transportation
    • Chicago's Eroding Competitive Performance (Chicago vs. New York)
    • Urbanoscope
    • NJ Gov. Chris Christie Channels His Inner "Chainsaw Al" Dunlap
    • New York's Quality of Life Agenda
    • Constantin Gurdgiev: Knowledge Economy and Dublin Water Woes
    • Megaregional Migration
    • Replay: Good Economic Development - Indy's Internet Marketing Cluster
  • ►September (17)
    • Chicago's Metra Postpones Bridges Project
    • A Civic Going Out of Business Sale
    • Jason Tinkey: The World Laps Chicago
    • Present at the Creation
    • Urbanoscope
    • Detroit Lives!
    • Iowa's "Agro-Metro" Future
    • Indianapolis Parking Meter Lease Is a Danger to Downtown
    • Are Networks or Size More Important to Urban Success?
    • Replay: Spheres of Influence
    • There's No Such Thing As Green Industry
    • Nuvo: A Mayor for the New Millennium
    • Indianapolis Parking Meters - The City's Response
    • Urbanoscope
    • The Power of Brand Detroit
    • Indy's "Son of Chicago" Parking Meter Lease to Be a Disaster for City
    • Labor Day Open Thread: What Do Successful Lower Income Neighborhoods Look Like?
  • ►August (19)
    • Richard Layman: Richard's Rules for Restaurant Driven Development
    • Urban Universities Done Right: Chicago's "Loop U"
    • Urbanoscope
    • The Physical Evolution of Infrastructure
    • The Index: Michigan and Ohio
    • Parking Meters and the Perils of Privatization
    • Replay: Fantasy Transit Maps
    • What Is the Real Function of an Arts Organization?
    • Stuck in the 90's
    • Jim Russell: Catch a Rising Star - Pittsburgh
    • Rebranding Columbus
    • Urbanoscope
    • Lessons From Beirut
    • Help Stop Metra From Destroying Part of Chicago's Transit Infrastructure
    • The New International Style
    • Replay: Columbus - The New Midwestern Star
    • The Demographics of Property Tax Revolts
    • Noah Kazis: Shaping the Next New York - The Promise of Bloomberg’s Rezonings
    • The Mark of a Great City Is in How It Treats Its Ordinary Spaces, Not Its Special Ones
  • ►July (16)
    • Urbanoscope
    • Globalized Professional Services
    • Mike Doyle: Meet Me In St. Louis, Not Milwaukee
    • Chicago's Structural Advantages (and Professional Services 2.0)
    • Replay: Detroit - Urban Laboratory and New American Frontier
    • Commuting Market Share Is the Wrong Way to Judge Transit
    • Urban America's Quality vs. Quantity Dilemma
    • H. L. Mencken: The Libido for the Ugly
    • It's Time for America to Get On the Bus
    • Urbanoscope
    • The Specter of Autarky
    • "James Drain" Hits Cleveland
    • Randy Simes: Cincinnati's Dramatic, Multi-Billion Dollar Riverfront Revitalization Nearly Complete
    • The Columbus, Indiana Values Proposition
    • A Better Tomorrow
    • Urbanoscope
  • ►June (18)
    • City Profile: Milwaukee by UrbanMilwaukee
    • Buffalo, You Are Not Alone
    • Replay: The Decline of Civic Leadership Culture
    • Personal Brands and City Brands
    • Chuck Banas: Putting Parking In Its Proper Place
    • Chicago and the Epicenter
    • Urbanoscope
    • City Economic Weight
    • Jarrett Walker: Los Angeles - The Next Great Transit Metropolis?
    • Does Anyone Really Believe Human Capital Is Important?
    • Replay: Bruce Mau's Massive Change
    • The Spread of California's Governance Disease
    • Creative Winter
    • Richard Florida: How to Revitalize Rust Belt Cities
    • The Neighborhoods of Cincinnati
    • Urbanoscope
    • The Talent Disconnect (or, Pittsburgh's Talent Failure)
    • Chicago (and New York) Stories
  • ►May (17)
    • Replay: Creative Destruction Is Real
    • FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff Delivers Tough Love to Transit Advocates
    • City Profile: St. Louis by UrbanSTL
    • Next American Suburb: Carmel, Indiana
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • New Grass Roots: People for Urban Progress
    • Is It Game Over for Atlanta?
    • Richard Herman: Will a Dying Cleveland Finally Turn to Immigrants?
    • Brookings' New Geography of Urban America
    • Replay: Louisville - The Case for 8664
    • The Authentic City
    • Megan Cottrell: Eviction Is to Black Women What Incarceration Is to Black Men
    • Review: The Great Reset by Richard Florida
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Do Cities Need a Creative Director?
    • London and the Power of Place
    • Failure to Communicate: Beyond Starbucks Urbanism
  • ►April (19)
    • Replay: What Made the Burnham Plan of Chicago Successful
    • Top Down or Bottom Up Leadership? Both!
    • Chuck Banas: This Is Sprawl
    • Thoughts on a Federal Policy for American Cities
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • If You Want Sustainability, Provide Economic Security
    • Drew Austin: Brief Interviews with Hideous Cities
    • The New Look of the American Suburb
    • In Praise of the Chicago Opera Theater
    • Replay: True Cities and Shadow Cities
    • Density Reconsidered
    • Ryan Avent: The Urban Economy
    • The Other Side of Detroit
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Getting to Yes Faster
    • Carol Coletta: Innovative Cities
    • Why It's So Hard For Small Cities to Get Great Design
    • Replay: The Outsiders
    • Can Your City Compete?
  • ►March (20)
    • "Brain Drain" vs. "Steel Drain"
    • Megan Cottrell: Don't Fall in the Poverty Trap - You May Never Get Out
    • Getting Serious About Talent
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Midwest Success Stories
    • Census Bureau Releases 2009 Population Estimates
    • Richard Longworth: Paying for Cities
    • A New New Media for Cities
    • Janette Sadik-Khan on Changing the Transportation Game
    • Replay: The Importance of Aesthetics in Transportation Facility Design
    • The Next Industrial Revolution
    • Detroitblog: Solitary Man
    • The City as Platform
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Detroit: Embracing the Ruins
    • Carl Wohlt: Learning from Starbucks
    • Downsides of Consolidation #2 - Cost Increases, Dilution of Urban Interests, Deferred Problems
    • Replay: Small Cities Should Have Fareless Transit
    • The 10% Solution
    • Featured Site: Branding for Cities
  • ►February (17)
    • Downsides of Consolidation #1: Neighborhood Redevelopment
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • St. Louis: Reconnecting the City to the River
    • Peter Christensen: Why Transit Used to Be Profitable and Isn't Now
    • Eye on the TIGER
    • Replay: An Examination of City-County Consolidation
    • Cleveland and the Regionalism Challenge
    • Featured Sites: Girls on Bikes
    • Cincinnati: The Urge to Merge, Or Learning to Love Your Urban Geography
    • Cincinnati: The State of the Arts
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Joel Kotkin on the Future of the Heartland
    • Drew Austin: The Living...The Built...The McDonald's Parking Lot
    • An Interview With the Urbanophile
    • Replay: Preserving Our Mid-Century Heritage
    • The Power of Greenfield Economics
    • Chris Barnett: It Falls From the Sky
  • ►January (19)
    • Framework: Transit Ridership
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Another Epic Public Space WIN in New York
    • Drew Klacik: Place-Based Clusters
    • The Core Vitality Imperative
    • Replay: Impossibility City
    • You Can't Fight the State DOT - Or Can You?
    • Michael Scott: Robert Clifton Weaver's Quest to End Housing Segregation - Has Anything Changed?
    • Portland and the Limits of Urban Planning Policy
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Want Talent? Drink at Lunch!
    • High Tech Won't Save California's Economy - Or Ours
    • No Promise of Safety
    • Will Anyone Stand Up For American Industry?
    • Replay: The Giant Sucking Sound
    • Migration Matters
    • Jarrett Walker: Learning, Again, From Las Vegas
    • The Urbanophile 2009 Year in Review
    • Midwest Miscellany
• ►2009 (178)
  • ►December (13)
    • Building Suburbs That Last #4 - Supporting Home Based Businesses
    • Detroit Roundup
    • The Safety Bogeyman
    • A Plan for Detroit
    • Replay: Invert the World
    • St. Louis: Gateway Arch Grounds Design Competition
    • A Midwest Megaregion?
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Randomly Quotable
    • Review: Megaregions, Edited by Catherine L. Ross
    • The Mayor as CEO
    • Columbus: Fantasy Transit Maps
    • Role Reversal
  • ►November (15)
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Thanksgiving Open Thread: Your Civic Ambition
    • Back From Barcelona
    • Migration: Geographies in Conflict
    • Ryan Avent: Disruptive Technologies
    • Replay: Mega-Skepticism
    • Principles of Privatization - Part 4: Guidelines for Action
    • Reducing Carbon Should Not Distort Regional Economies
    • Indy: Parallel Societies
    • The Urbanophile in the News
    • Pro Sports As Naming Rights Deal
    • Principles of Privatization - Part 3: Uses of Funds
    • Report from the Rail~Volution
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Cincinnati: Water Works and the Commonwealth
  • ►October (17)
    • Chicago: Lewis Mumford on Daniel Burnham
    • Principles of Privatization - Part 2: Value Levers
    • Replay: Bad Example
    • New York: Leadership in Transportation Design
    • Welcome to the New Urbanophile 2.0
    • Principles of Privatization - Part 1: Taxonomy of Transactions
    • The White City
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Chicago Transit at a Crossroads
    • Cincinnati: Vote No on 9
    • A Better Road to Clean Water Act Compliance
    • Chicago Transit: From Good to Great, Part 5 - Getting It Done
    • What's Killing California?
    • Replay: Failure of Ambition
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Transit Roundup
    • Midwest Metro GDP, Unemployment
  • ►September (14)
    • Planning and Free Market Density
    • Chicago Transit: From Good to Great, Part 4 - Paying For It
    • Pittsburgh Renaissance?
    • Re-Imagining the Good Life
    • Other Michigan Cities
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Imperial Columbus and the Principles of Regional Finance
    • Chicago Transit: From Good to Great, Part 3 - Cost Control, Governance, the Racquet
    • Indy: The Failure of the Canal Walk
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Spheres of Influence
    • Guest Post: Recrecational Hinterlands
    • Labor Day Open Thread: Best and Worst Midwestern Cultural Traits
    • Pedestrian Deaths, Nashville Style
  • ►August (14)
    • Chicago Transit: From Good to Great, Part 2 - Raising the Bar on Design
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Robert Irwin - Light and Space III
    • The Downside of Living Carless in a Small City
    • A New Version of the American Dream
    • Chicago Transit: From Good to Great, Part 1 - Building the Vision
    • The New Industrial City
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Guest Post: Is Sacramento an Indianapolis Wannabe?
    • Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier
    • Replay: Chicago Corporate Headquarters and the Global City
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Indy: Four Projects
    • Cincinnati: The Great Streetcar Debate
  • ►July (18)
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Louisville: The Legacy of Jerry Abramson
    • Replay: The Aloneness of an Urbanophile
    • The New Economy Counter-Trend, or The Shrinking Amenity Gap
    • Indy: Good Economic Development - Internet Marketing Cluster
    • Why So Many Southern Cities Are Successful
    • Race and the City
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Indy: Good Economic Development - Energy Systems Network
    • Clean Water Act Compliance Costs Are Hurting Our Cities and Promoting Sprawl
    • Globalization and Civic Leadership Culture
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • High Speed Rail Roundup
    • St. Louis: City Garden and the Millennium Park Effect
    • Chicago: Transportation and the Burnham Plan
    • Replay: What Business Are You In?
    • Replay: Kansas City's Edifice Complex
    • Shrinking the Rust Belt
  • ►June (16)
    • Louisville: The Case for 8664
    • "Amtrak on Steroids" is Not "High Speed Rail"
    • Building Suburbs That Last #3 - The Mother of All Impact Fees
    • The High Line
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • End Property Tax Collection in Arrears
    • The Midwest Mindset
    • The Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago - Part 2: The Nichols Bridgeway, Or Re-Imagining Monroe St.
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Creative Destruction Is Real
    • The Urbanophile Named One of Chicago's Top Online News Sites
    • Replay: Globalization and the Soft Power of Cities
    • The Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago - Part 1: The Exterior
    • Mega-Regional Reputation and Other Midwest Miscellany
    • Tony George, the IMS, and the New Midwest
    • The Talent Equation
  • ►May (14)
    • Louisville: A Tale of Two Cities
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Chicago: Preventing the Self-Destruction of Diversity
    • A Crisis of Values
    • The Successful, the Stable, and the Struggling
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Indy: Australian and Spanish Investors Hurting, Hoosier Taxpayers Smiling
    • Columbus: The New Midwestern Star
    • The Rise of the New Grass Roots - Part 2: The Applications
    • Transit Pricing Reconsidered
    • The Rise of the New Grass Roots - Part 1: The Phenomenon
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • "They're Not Current"
    • The Future of the American Newspaper
  • ►April (16)
    • Resolving the Paradox of Success
    • Chicago: East Chicago's Industrial Past
    • The New Discipline of True Urban Design
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Cleveland: Reactions to "What's Wrong" Post
    • Cleveland: What's Wrong?
    • The Giant Sucking Sound
    • Why Don't People Buy Art?
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Chicago: What Made the Burnham Plan Successful?
    • What Does Urban Success Look Like?
    • The Outsiders
    • Job Sprawl and Other Midwest Miscellany
    • Impossibility City
    • Detroit: Out-Migration Devastates Michigan (and the Midwest)
    • Small Cities Should Have Fareless Transit
  • ►March (14)
    • The Urbanophile Wins Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Transit Innovation Competition
    • Cincinnati: Agenda 360
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Strategies Done Right - Indianapolis Museum of Art
    • Chicago: Pecha Kucha - Urban Design Disasters
    • Census Bureau Releases 2008 Population Estimates
    • Building Suburbs That Last #2 - New Urbanism and Parcelization
    • Louisville: Vice City
    • Detroit: Not the Future of the American City
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Why Progressives Should Be Pro-Business
    • Indy: Could Marion County Implode?
    • Boomers, Innovation, and the New Economy
    • High Speed Rail and Other Midwest Miscellany
  • ►February (12)
    • Chicago: Reconnecting the Hinterland, Part 2B - On Innovation
    • GaWC Issues New Global City List
    • Building New Audiences for Our Classical Music Institutions
    • Chicago: Reconnecting the Hinterland 2A - Onshore Outsourcing
    • Midwest Miscellany
    • Chicago: Reconnecting the Hinterland, Part 1B - High Speed Rail
    • Chicago/Indy: A Tale of Two Blizzards
    • Chicago: Reconnecting the Hinterland, Part 1A - Metropolitan Linkages
    • The Logic of Failure
    • Columbus: Downtown Mall to Be Demolished
    • The Return of the Native
    • Midwest Miscellany
  • ►January (15)
    • Indy: ICVA Hits Home Run with New Brand Concept
    • Chicago: Architectural Note - The Midwest Has Winters
    • Building Suburbs That Last #1 - Strategy
    • I Almost Got Killed
    • Miscellaneous Musings
    • Quotes from the Burnham Plan
    • Chicago: A Declaration of Independence
    • Detroit Roundup and Other Miscellany
    • Review: Retrofitting Suburbia
    • "Cincinnati is Cool", "Some of Us Chose to Live Here", and Other Musings
    • Preserving Our Mid-Century Heritage
    • Urban Alumni Networks
    • "Our Product is Better Than Our Brand"
    • Future of the Market Square Arena Site
    • Miscellaneous Musings
• ►2008 (126)
  • ►December (10)
    • The True City
    • The Decline of the Midwest Cultural Institution
    • Pride of Place
    • Fertilizing the Soil
    • News Briefs
    • Infrastructure Stimulus
    • High Mast High Jinks in Chicago
    • The Future of the American Suburb
    • No Parking, No Problem
    • An American Commonwealth
  • ►November (16)
    • Miscellaneous Musings
    • Detroit: Do the Collapse
    • Kris Kimel Gets It
    • Indy's Increasing International Population
    • The Facts on the Ground
    • Charlotte, Bruce Mau, and Other Miscellaneous Musings
    • What is a Strategy?
    • Review: New Indianapolis Airport Terminal Part 7 - Conclusion
    • Review: New Indianapolis Airport Terminal Part 6 - Miscellaneous, or Rethinking the Airport as Public Space
    • Review: New Indianapolis Airport Terminal Part 5 - Artwork
    • Miscellaneous Musings
    • "We're Out of Ideas"
    • The Global City of the Future
    • Bad Example
    • Review: New Indianapolis Airport Terminal - Part 4: Signage
    • Review: New Indianapolis Airport Terminal - Part 3: Finishes and Furnishings
  • ►October (12)
    • Why I Love Jury Duty
    • More Louisville Transit Goodness
    • Kansas City in Monocle, Cincinnati in Minneapolis
    • A New Approach to Regional Economic Development in Indiana
    • This Is Not Your Father's CTA
    • Review: New Indianapolis Airport Terminal - Part 2: Interior
    • Review: New Indianapolis Airport Terminal - Part 1: Exterior
    • Invert the World
    • Chicago: Corporate Headquarters and the Global City
    • Globalization and the Soft Power of Cities
    • Updated: What Do We Want Our Cities to Be?
    • More Thoughts on Indianapolis Public Transit
  • ►September (11)
    • Failure of Ambition
    • Review: Massive Change by Bruce Mau
    • Fast and Cheap Ways to Improve Public Transit in Indianapolis Right Now
    • 100th Anniversary of the Burnham Plan
    • The Really, Really Cheap Manifesto
    • The Financial Crisis: Good for Chicago?
    • Group Considers Closing Monument Circle to Traffic
    • Milken Institute: 2008 Best Performing Cities
    • Are You a Consumer or a Producer?
    • Miscellaneous Musings
    • Indy's Appeal to the Educated
  • ►August (9)
    • The Forces of Globalization
    • Mini-Review: I-74 Interchange at Ronald Reagan Parkway
    • Deepening the Linkages Between Indianapolis and Indiana
    • The Streetlights of Chicago
    • The Sustainability of Urban Amenities
    • Modern Architecture, Hoosier Style
    • Mega-Regional Migration
    • I Have a Dream: Public Sculpture Edition
    • The Great Inversion
  • ►July (14)
    • Hospitals, Competition, and Life Sciences
    • Miscellaneous Musings
    • What is Your Ambition?
    • Smart Economic Development Strategies: MusicCrossroads
    • The Globalization Reading List
    • Major Moves is Majorly Great
    • More Mind-Blowing Louisville Historic Transit Pictures
    • The Importance of Social Structures for Urban Success
    • Mega-Skepticism
    • Artists in the Midwestern Workforce
    • More Smart Economic Development Strategies
    • The Brand Promise of Indianapolis
    • Naptown Gets Harmonic
    • The Downtowns of Ohio
  • ►June (15)
    • Postcards from Milwaukee
    • Hope for Urban Schools - At What Cost?
    • Indianapolis is Making Major Moves
    • The Urbanophile Conjecture
    • Nashville: The Next Boomtown of the New South?
    • Postcards: Hoosier Gothic
    • Brookings Institution Releases New Metro Area Rankings
    • More Good Reading and News Briefs
    • Commuter Rail Proposed for Indianapolis
    • Review: US 31 Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement
    • The Hustler as a Key Component of Urban Success, or Why Greed is Good
    • Louisville's Elevated Electric Rail System
    • The One That Got Away
    • City Rankings: Behind the Surveys
    • Rethinking Brain Drain
  • ►May (10)
    • Economic Development Strategies, Done Right
    • Kansas City: A Downtown Profile
    • Louisville: An Identity Crisis
    • Indiana Transportation Briefs
    • Double Trouble
    • Indianapolis: Mayor Ballard 100 Day Report
    • Cincinnati: A Midwest Conundrum
    • New Urbanist Developments in Atlanta
    • A New Rail Transit Plan for Indianapolis
    • Pecha Kucha: Urban Aphorisms
  • ►April (10)
    • Indiana University School of Music on an Upswing
    • Indiana Transportation Updates
    • Bureaucracy-2, Democracy and the Rule of Law-0
    • Review: Caught in the Middle by Richard C. Longworth
    • Unintended Consequences of Consolidation Legislation
    • Tax Reform Trouble
    • Simon Company Enters High Rise Residential Market
    • City Benchmarking Report
    • The Europeanization of American Cities
    • What Makes a City Desirable?
  • ►March (11)
    • Census Bureau Releases 2007 County and Metro Area Population Estimates
    • Houston: The Next Great World City?
    • INDOT Changing to Make Major Moves Happen
    • Review: Indianapolis Library Expansion - Part Three: The Interior
    • Renzo Piano on Architecture
    • Updated: A Fashionable Affair at the IMA
    • Review: Indianapolis Library Expansion - Part Two: Artwork
    • Columbus Ranked #1 Up and Coming Tech City
    • Cities on the Edge of Chaos
    • Review: Indianapolis Library Expansion - Part One: The Exterior
    • Review: 46th St. Bridge Replacement
  • ►February (7)
    • The Orchestral Conundrum
    • The Importance of Aesthetic Design in Transportation Facilities
    • Carmel Roundabout Renderings Released
    • The Next Slum
    • Are "Safer" Roads More Dangerous?
    • Pecha Kucha Night
    • An Odd Occurrence
  • ►January (1)
    • Hotel Mundane No More
• ►2007 (90)
  • ►December (5)
    • A New MPO for Indianapolis?
    • Power Implications of Indiana Local Government Reform
    • An Examination of City-County Consolidation
    • Suburban Decay Comes to Charlotte
    • Are Cities Necessary?
  • ►November (9)
    • Ohio Facing $3.5 Billion Road Construction Shortfall
    • Projected Metro Area GDP Growth and Impact of Housing Market
    • Metropolitan Area GDP
    • The Real Basis of a Local Economy
    • Quote, Unquote
    • Super-70 Completed
    • Why Rail Transit Is a Bad Idea for Indianapolis
    • Pretentious Quote of the Day
    • Does "Smart Growth" Discriminate?
  • ►October (7)
    • The Question Which Must Be Answered
    • Columbus Inner Loop
    • Indianapolis Cultural Trail
    • Thoughts From a Trip to Bloomington
    • Impressions of Dallas
    • Cleveland Tries to Strangle Own Suburbs
    • Sprint Center Opens in Kansas City
  • ►September (1)
    • INDOT Releases I-465 Northeast Corridor RFP
  • ►August (4)
    • Postcard: Nashville, Tennessee
    • Project Preview: I-465 West Leg Reconstruction, Part Two: The Bad
    • Project Preview: I-465 West Leg Reconstruction, Part One: The Good
    • City Center Mall Headed for Scrap Heap in Columbus
  • ►July (15)
    • Kansas, Missouri Facing Road Funding Crunch
    • Restore 64 Wraps up Early in Louisville
    • Project Review: Lewis and Clark Parkway Widening in Clarksville, Indiana
    • Downtown Malls In Columbus and Indianapolis
    • Mini-Review: I-80/I-94 Widening in Northwest Indiana and Chicago
    • Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership
    • Columbus and Indianapolis Size Comparison
    • A Comparison of the Columbus and Indianapolis Freeway Systems
    • Project Review: I-465 Northwest Fast Track
    • Postcard: German Village, Columbus, Ohio
    • Updated: Transportation Briefs
    • How Many Stars Can the Skyline Take?
    • Project Reviews: 757 Mass Ave. and the Villagio in Indianapolis, Part Two
    • Indiana Convention Center Expansion Design Revealed
    • Good Articles in the FT Weekend
  • ►June (10)
    • Kansas City's Crossroad's Arts District
    • More Transportation Leadership from Missouri
    • City of Parks Taking Shape in Louisville
    • Followup on Gentrification
    • Indianapolis Outer Loop
    • Project Reviews: 757 Mass Ave. and the Villagio in Indianapolis, Part One
    • Indianapolis Needs a New MPO Structure
    • A Tale of Two Marriotts
    • Suburban Downtown Booms
    • Orchestra Illustrates Cleveland's Dilemma
  • ►May (12)
    • Postcard: Old Louisville
    • Aiming High at the Indianapolis Zoo
    • Super Duper 70
    • More on Arts and Accessibility
    • Impressions of Nashville
    • Must Read David Hoppe Column on the Arts
    • Great Pedestrian Environments
    • Hotel Mundane Facelift Announced
    • The Kentucky Derby
    • INDOT's Strange Priorities
    • Market Street Ramp Project in Indianapolis, Part Two
    • Market Street Ramp Project in Indianapolis, Part One
  • ►April (5)
    • Growing Up
    • Why I Hate Historic Districts
    • Review: The Kansas City Urban Society 2020 Plan
    • On Gentrification
    • Goethe on Leadership
  • ►March (6)
    • Does Anybody Believe a Word These Guys are Saying?
    • The Indiana Commerce Connector and Illiana Expressway Aftermath
    • Birmingham at a Crossroads
    • Welcome to the (Next) Boomtown
    • Stopping the Brain Drain (?)
    • Louisville's Big Plans
  • ►February (9)
    • The Aloneness of an Urbanophile
    • Carmel: Leadership in Action, Part Three
    • Carmel: Leadership in Action, Part Two
    • The Shrewdness of Mitch Daniels
    • Carmel: Leadership in Action, Part One
    • What Makes a Great Orchestra? (Or a Great City?)
    • Louisville's 2007 Competitive City Report: A Critique
    • Think Tank Ranks Bioscience Jobs Concentration
    • Postcard: Fountain Square, Indianapolis
  • ►January (7)
    • The Penalty of Leadership
    • What Business Are You In?
    • Superbowl Divides Illinois Town
    • Indiana's Small Cities Suffering
    • Towards a New Vision for Black Indianapolis
    • Kansas City's Edifice Complex
    • "Circle Truss" Selected for New Indy Gateway
• ►2006 (3)
  • ►December (3)
    • Project Review: Indianapolis 38th St. Reconstruction and Streetscape
    • The "Hotel Mundane"
    • Welcome to the Urbanophile

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