Category Archives: Housing

Settling Down

Posted on April 17, 2013 by LaDale Winling

In July of 2010 my wife, I, and our cat, along with our soon-to-be born baby boy, pulled our U-Haul truck out of the alley next to our apartment building in Evanston and onto Main Street. We headed to Philadelphia … Continue reading →

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FHA Underwriting Manual

Posted on November 29, 2012 by LaDale Winling

This summer I was reading Louis Hyman’s Debtor Nation when I came across a surprising reference to the FHA Underwriting Manual developed in the 1930s advising mortgage lenders that college campuses were an excellent buffer for good neighborhoods against infiltration … Continue reading →

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HOLC Maps

Posted on July 29, 2012 by LaDale Winling

At least since Ken Jackson’s 1980 article in the Journal of Urban History, historians have been fascinated by the security maps created by the security maps created by the Home Ownership Loan Corporation and the process of state-sponsored segregation in … Continue reading →

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Holdout Oriented Design

Posted on January 20, 2011 by LaDale Winling

I’m going to have an article coming out in the Journal of Planning History, part of an issue on postwar university planning and urban renewal. My contribution is about the University of Chicago and comes from my dissertation research. The … Continue reading →

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University of Chicago Sit-In, 1962

Posted on April 13, 2010 by LaDale Winling

I thought it worth re-visiting this find from a while back at the request of Angus Johnston. In my dissertation, “Building the Ivory Tower: Campus Planning, University Development, and the Politics of Urban Space,” I research the development of American … Continue reading →

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Bruegmann Whopper Watch

Posted on March 11, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Way back in the day when I was a distance running coach and aficionado who paid attention to such things, running journalist Scott Douglas started a project called the Galloway Whopper Watch which documented the excessive claims of marathon success … Continue reading →

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Murder Mystery Flicks

Posted on February 13, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Call Northside 777 and The Naked City. The former film is about a Chicago Times reporter’s investigation of a decade-old murder of a police officer in the Second City; it has a strong affinities with the latter, set as a … Continue reading →

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Introduction

Posted on January 17, 2009 by LaDale Winling

In returning this blog to matters academic, I offer a draft of the introduction to my dissertation. It is for information and entertainment, and not for citation without the permission of the author. Universities are places of optimism. For much … Continue reading →

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Surprises in the Archive

Posted on November 2, 2008 by LaDale Winling

Researching university histories and campus planning I frequently come across pretty significant surprises in the archives. There was the one about Arthur Miller and Charles Walgreen. There was another where a prominent historian expressed support for limited segregation. Now, as … Continue reading →

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Podcast #2

Posted on May 21, 2008 by urbanoasis

It’s long-awaited and it’s available. Drawn from one of the chapters of my MUP thesis and presented at last fall’s conference on planning history. All audio, like the last one. I’m thinking about adding visuals and making it a .mov … Continue reading →

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