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- ▼2012 (26)
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- 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)
- ►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
- ►December (11)
- ►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
- ►December (16)
- ►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
- ►December (13)
- ►2008 (126)
- ►December (10)
- ►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
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Chicago/Indy: A Tale of Two Blizzards
Going forward I’ll be posting selected articles over at New Geography. The first installment appears there today, so please be sure to check out “A Tale of Two Blizzards“. It contrasts the approach to government services and taxation taken by Indianapolis and Chicago, and how both of them are under pressure in the current economy.
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@JibreelK Alas, Indy is starting to get with the transit program, but their plans have been shut down by the state legislature
@bruce_katz This is why I repost from the archives. Tons of people miss things the first time around. Great report.
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Man, and I was really looking forward to reading an article entitled “Chicago: A Declaration of Indianapolis”.
Thanks – pretty stupid error.
Congrats on the writing gig. Something you considering taking seriously going forward? I know you have a career already, but you have great writing talent so I think you could probably accomplish a lot in that area.