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Category Archives: Urban
Change in population, Chicago area, 2010-2020
Here are maps showing the change in population by census tract between 2010 and 2020 in the Chicago area. The numbers are from the full 2010 Census and from the 2020 redistricting data released by the Census Bureau on August … Continue reading
New York’s “open streets” vs. Chicago’s “shared streets”
I’ve reported in previous blog posts (here and here) on Chicago’s “shared streets” (which are comparable to what are called “slow streets” in most other cities). These are streets open only to local motor-vehicle traffic and intended chiefly for pedestrian … Continue reading
Hiking and biking in Reykjavík
I made a brief trip in early July to Reykjavík. If you don’t count a couple of stops at Keflavík Airport many years ago, this was my first visit to Iceland. Reykjavík is a smallish city in a country with … Continue reading
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Dallas dreams of walkability
I spent a few days in the Dallas area earlier this month. It was my first time in Dallas since February 1997. On that earlier trip, I’d found the city deeply depressing. Dallas’s downtown, once apparently a lively place, had … Continue reading
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New Orleans has—slowly—improved its rail-transit and pedestrian infrastructure
I took my first post-vaccination trips in April and May, traveling twice to New Orleans. I’d been in New Orleans quite a number of times over the years but, for one reason or another, hadn’t been there since 1983. The … Continue reading
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Northeastern Lincoln Park in Chicago temporarily becomes a little less car-ridden
Many parks in large American cities seem to be set up more for automobile travel than for getting around on foot or even by bicycle. An example is Belle Isle Park in Detroit. The park has a very distinguished history. … Continue reading
Chicago River Trail: forty years to build a thirteen-mile recreational path in Chicago?
There has been talk of building a recreational path along the Chicago River for decades. The Friends of the Chicago River, a lobbying group, has been urging the construction of such a path since its inception in 1979. The second … Continue reading
Chicago creates yet another “shared street”
Chicago opened another “shared street” a couple of weeks ago: a 1.1-mile-long stretch of Dickens Avenue between Clark Street and Racine Avenue. Chicago uses the term “shared street” for what, in many American cities, would be called a “slow street”: … Continue reading
Chicago gets a “slow street,” sort of
Overcrowded sidewalks—a bad idea in a time of social distancing—have led many American cities to start a “slow streets” program, in which pedestrians and cyclists are encouraged to use the roadways of certain streets. Chicago came to this movement rather … Continue reading
The resilience of commercial streets in walkable urban neighborhoods
It’s been suggested that the Coronavirus Pandemic will turn out to be a disaster for stores on commercial streets in walkable neighborhoods. Most of these stores have had to close or at least to limit their operations during a lockdown … Continue reading