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It's Official: Downtowns Are Booming, from Atlantic Cities-
- What do you do when your downtown is booming? Create more places for all those new people to go, that’s what you do. In "It’s Official: Downtowns are Booming" in Atlantic Cities, we learn that Chicago’s downtown topped the list by jumping 36 percent over the past 10 years.…
- The Fall and Rise of Great Public Spaces, from citiwire.net
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- Does this sound familiar? "Walking though the center of certain North American communities can be a profoundly alienating experience, as if the whole place had been evacuated for an emergency no one told you about." It wasn't always that way, and this article, with the help of architect Jan Gehl,…
A Porch for Chicago Union Station?-
- If you’ve ever been to Chicago’s Union Station, this may be hard to envision, but I’m asking you to try: Imagine walking out of the station and, instead of facing a wall of taxis, buses and honking cars all jockeying for position, imagine meandering down a block-long blissed-out…
People spot creates urban oasis, encourages Placemaking-
- MPC Research Assistant Ariel Ranieri authored this post.
That picture up above? It is a people spot.
It used to be parallel parking in Andersonville. Actually, it used to be my personal preferred parallel parking space in Andersonville, which is ironic, considering I’ve been encouraging…
Greater Good Studio seeks to create world's most competent transit app-
- MPC Research Assistant Ariel Ranieri authored this post.
You are furious and shivering. The bus was full (again!) and nobody told you it was going to rain. Now you’re soaking, your bag is soaking, your project portfolio for your boss is probably soaking, and you have to stand out here in the…
'Space in Between' contest seeks creative transitional uses of vacant spaces through Aug. 31-
- Today marks the official start of MPC’s fourth annual Placemaking contest. This year’s is “Space in Between,” which is seeking the most creative and interactive temporary uses of vacant space in metropolitan Chicago, Northwest Indiana, and southeastern Wisconsin.
Why…
Gospel Fest builds on Bronzeville’s musical legacy-
- MPC Research Assistant Emma Heemskerk authored this post.
You could feel history in the making as Bronzeville celebrated its musical roots this weekend at the newly relocated Gospel Fest at Ellis Park near 37th and Cottage Grove. In a bold move from its usual home at centrally located Millennium…
Harnessing Technology for Strong Cities: MPC hosts the Urban Systems Collaborative-
- We shape our technology; thereafter it shapes us (to paraphrase an oft-abused Winston Churchill quote). We got a first-hand look at the relevance of technology to our work in 2011 when, with support from IBM, we sponsored a Placemaking apps contest within the larger Apps for Metro Chicago…
Place Stations: Creating Fun, Functional Transit Centers-
- When the iconic Chicago Union Station debuted in 1925, its design was a game changer in the world of long-distance rail travel. As noted previously, nearly 90 years after its debut, the station serves very different purposes now; its largest users are Metra commuters (more than 100,000 daily), and…
Putting vacant space to use, in the meantime-
- Patience, I hear, is a virtue. I wouldn’t know; I am an impatient person by nature. While parenthood and living for a year in a Mediterranean country have done wonders to temper this, impatience remains intrinsic to my DNA. Lately I’ve been thinking, though, that maybe patience is…
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