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Category Archives: Urban
Another book “superstore” closes
I was a little shocked to discover in the course of a walk further south than I’d been for two months that the Barnes & Noble at … Continue reading
Change in population by “race” and Hispanic/Latinx status, Chicago area, 2010-2014/2018
The Census Bureau released the 2014/2018 American Community Survey (ACS) tract-level data last December, and I’m afraid I’ve been a little slow to download and analyze any of the numbers. One reason is that I didn’t think that there would … Continue reading
Pedestrian life in Chicago during the Coronavirus Pandemic
There have been hundreds of newspaper stories describing the emptiness of American cities during the Coronavirus Pandemic. This view doesn’t jibe with what I’ve observed at all. I’ll gladly admit that my experience during six weeks of “lockdown” (ever since March … Continue reading
Miami Beach Walk comes close to being finished
I recently spent a week in Miami Beach, where I was delighted to discover that, since my last visit there two years ago, what is now known at Miami Beach Walk had been more or less completed. This is a … Continue reading
Bangkok keeps building rail lines outward
I rode three new rail transit lines while in Bangkok last month: the extension of the MRT Blue Line west to Lak Song; the MRT Blue Line connection between Tao Poon and Tha Phra; and the BTS Light Green Line … Continue reading
Doha tries to become more “sustainable”
I spent the third week of January in Doha, Qatar. I’d been there only once before, on a one-day trip from Dubai in 2010. On the earlier trip, I’d been extremely impressed by the Corniche—and wasn’t much taken by anything … Continue reading
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Hong Kong creates a little more parkland
Hong Kong is (famously) not a very democratic place, but, when it comes to things that do not matter very much to the government in Beijing, there can be a considerable amount of public discussion. A case in point is … Continue reading
Was Chicago still building “too much” in 2018?
I’ve put up three previous posts in which I pointed out that, given Chicago’s continued population losses, there was an enormous amount of residential building in the Chicago urban area, or at least an enormous amount of residential-building permit-filing. This … Continue reading
Singapore’s Coast-to-Coast Trail
I’ve written about Singapore’s “park connectors” before. These are paths for pedestrians and cyclists that are generally separate from the city’s conventional sidewalks. The park connectors often follow Singapore’s coasts or its abundant watercourses. Sometimes they pass through parkland as … Continue reading
Bordeaux pushes back—a little—against the automobile
I recently spent nearly a week in Bordeaux, a city I had previously been in only briefly. I was particularly interested in looking at all the ways that Bordeaux has been attempting to push back against the hegemony of the … Continue reading
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