Monthly Archives: October 2017

Was Chicago still building “too much” in 2016?

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Christopher Winters

A year ago, I put up a post in which I pointed out that, given Chicago’s population losses, there seemed to be an enormous amount of building in the Chicago urban area, or at least an enormous amount of building-permit filing. No other American … Continue reading →

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Harbin and Vladivostok

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Christopher Winters

I was in Harbin and Vladivostok last week. These two cities may be in different countries, but they are only 500 km apart and have a common late-19th-century origin as Russian railroad towns. Harbin was the administrative center of the … Continue reading →

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