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- 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
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- "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
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- Chuck Banas: Putting Parking In Its Proper Place
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- Does Anyone Really Believe Human Capital Is Important?
- Replay: Bruce Mau's Massive Change
- The Spread of California's Governance Disease
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- ►May (18)
- 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
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- Do Cities Need a Creative Director?
- London and the Power of Place
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- Failure to Communicate: Beyond Starbucks Urbanism
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- 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
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- 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
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- The Other Side of Detroit
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- Getting to Yes Faster
- Carol Coletta: Innovative Cities
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- ►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 (179)
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- 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 (17)
- 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
- The Privileged Perspective
- 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
- ►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)
- ►January (1)
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- ►December (5)
- ►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)
- ►September (1)
- ►August (4)
- ►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)
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