Arrested Metropolis

The Illinois Valley, building off of Starved Rock and the Illinois and Michigan Canal is developing into a recreational corridor for the Chi...

I cobbled this post out of common objections that Jane Jacobs refuted. It's not really a complete post, but since I haven't worked o...

Downtown development was originally dense. Buildings touched! The buildings that did not touch were arrange in such a way that they occurred...

On one hand we have tiny Tanagool Park, reincarnated at the end of Wright Street, on the other we have Rotary Park, a monolithic megapark ou...

I noticed a basic pattern in urban development that early transportation innovations often complemented and reinforced previous transporta...

Jan Gehl is an urban theorist who has done much research on the city as an organism that was created in response to human senses. The our si...

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