Monthly Archives: June 2016

There has been a large amount of infill residential construction in Chicago in recent years despite the city’s static or declining population. Most of this building has occurred in prosperous neighborhoods on the North Side or close to downtown. “Urbanist” observers have … Continue reading →

The maps below present a classification of Chicago’s residential census tracts based on multivariate analysis. This approach (sometimes called social area analysis or factorial ecology in geography and sociology) is often used to classify small areas in cities. The ten neighborhood types identified … Continue reading →