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Category Archives: Urban
Miami’s Underline trail is extended
The recreational path known as the Miami Underline grew by 2.1 miles (3.4 km) on April 24. The Miami Underline, when finished, will run along Miami’s (mostly) elevated railroad, Metrorail, between Brickell, just south of downtown Miami, and South Dadeland, … Continue reading
Visiting a recolonized Hong Kong
Between 1998 and 2019, I visited Hong Kong more than a dozen times. The chief reason was that I was so fond of—as well as fascinated by—the place. Hong Kong satisfies just about all my urban aesthetic preferences. Above all, … Continue reading
Montréal’s REM as North America’s first actual regional railroad (maybe!)
I spent a few days in Montréal last week and naturally went and rode on the now year-old REM (Réseau express métropolitain). I was particularly interested in figuring out just what the REM is. Is it a light-rail line, as … Continue reading
Strasbourg builds “pedestrian arterials”
Governments of most cities in Western Europe have been trying over the last thirty (or more) years to reduce the role of the automobile in urban transportation. They’ve built new rail lines and renovated old ones. They’ve created elaborate bicycle … Continue reading
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New or newish rail transit lines and pedestrian facilities in Istanbul
I’ve been in Istanbul twice in the last few weeks, first in early May, then in mid-June. Except for a couple of stops at the enormous new airport, I had last been in Istanbul in 2014. Between 1969 and 2014, … Continue reading
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Neighborhood types in Chicago, 2020
The maps below present a classification of Chicago’s 2020 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 … Continue reading
Three dimensions, 2020
The analysis of neighborhood types in Chicago in 2020 suggests that three oblique key-cluster dimensions underlie the 34 variables used in the computations. The dimensions are listed below with their correlations to the most salient dimension definers (note that the names of the … Continue reading
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34 variables, 2020
Here’s a list of the 34 variables used in the analysis of socioeconomic data for Chicago-area 2020 census tracts. The first seven variables plus the age variables (10-14) consist of data from the 2020 Census. The other variables come from … Continue reading
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Neighborhood types, 2020
In the statistical study of neighborhoods in Chicago, 2020, cluster analysis of the three dimensions underlying the 34 variables yielded ten neighborhood types. For each neighborhood type, the following list includes: [a] the neighborhood-type number; [b] the T-scores on the three … Continue reading
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Seville
I spent several days in Seville last month. I had previously been less familiar with Seville than with any of Spain’s larger cities (I did spend a few hours walking around there in 2010). Like just about every other city … Continue reading
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