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Tashkent
I was in Tashkent (Toshkent in Uzbek) for a few days in late October. I found it a rather uncomfortable place. Problems started at the airport, where it was necessary to negotiate an enormous undisciplined crowd to inch through passport … Continue reading
The Songdo International Business District: report from the ground
Many of the world’s major urban building efforts have occurred as part of “megaprojects.” It would be very difficult to define “megaproject” in a way that everyone would agree to, but it’s probably fair to say that urban megaprojects are … Continue reading
Walkable urbanism without many walkers
I was recently in Atlanta for the first time since the late 1980s. I had been struck then at how un-urban the place was, despite the impressive new subway. There were few pedestrians downtown, and, on a walk up Peachtree Street to … Continue reading
Moscow’s new circumferential rail line
There are only a tiny number of fully developed circumferential metro lines in the world, that is, circular or ring lines that intersect with several radial lines and that therefore enormously increase potential interconnections. Curiously, many of these lines were … Continue reading
Is Chicago building too much?
Even though its population is stable or declining, Chicago has been building a great deal. Figures from the Census Bureau suggest that this is indeed an odd situation. Here’s a chart showing the relationship between residential building permits issued in … Continue reading
Lima’s distinctive Metro
I visited Lima’s Metro last week. It’s a very distinctive system, for a number of reasons. [1] Lima’s Metro does not really go downtown, and it doesn’t come very close to Lima’s newer quasi-CBD in and around Miraflores and San Isidro … Continue reading
Walking, running, bicycling, and taking trains in central São Paulo
The São Paulo metropolitan area is by most measures the largest or second largest in the Western Hemisphere, but it doesn’t have a very distinct image in North America or Europe. In so far as most foreigners think of São Paulo … Continue reading
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McDonald’s is not moving to downtown Chicago
Newspaper headlines have claimed that McDonald’s is moving its headquarters from suburban Oak Brook to “downtown Chicago.” It isn’t. The move (if it happens) would be to the Harpo Studios site, which is at 1058 West Washington Boulevard. This is … Continue reading
Apartment buildings on arterials in Chicago
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
Neighborhood types in Chicago, 2010
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