Category Archives: University of Chicago

Obama Presidential Library Part 2

Posted on August 25, 2012 by LaDale Winling

To continue my discussion from Part 1, not only should the Obama Presidential Library and Museum be located in Chicago, it should be affiliated with the University of Chicago. This is not a particularly controversial proposition — many of the … Continue reading →

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The Obama Presidential Library, Part One

Posted on August 2, 2012 by LaDale Winling

Discussion about the location of the Obama Presidential Library and Museum has been surfacing in a handful of media sources (and fan sites). Most recently, the Chicago Sun-Times published an article with pre-emptive criticism of an effort to bring the … Continue reading →

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Historic Aerial Photography – Soil Conservation Service

Posted on June 16, 2012 by LaDale Winling

Next up in blogging the book project is a return to aerial photography. Background: during the New Deal, agriculture was a key priority, and soil a specific component of that — see, for example, Don Worster’s The Dust Bowl. So … 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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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 It is for information and entertainment, and not for citation without the permission of the author.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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Hyde Park Progress

Posted on November 28, 2008 by LaDale Winling

As part of the research for my dissertation, I have been looking at a variety of planning and real estate activities undertaken by the University of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s. Among many memorable instances, one stands out to … 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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Laird Bell Law Quad

Posted on July 30, 2008 by urbanoasis

Yet another article on “what was Barack Obama like when he taught at the UChicago law school?” This time it’s from the New York Times rather than the Tribune or Sun-Times. There’s a back story to the building that houses … Continue reading →

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Saul Alinsky and the South Side of Chicago

Posted on January 9, 2008 by urbanoasis

You know I think my research is the most important work in the history of the world. Why? Exhibit A: Two degrees of separation to the U.S. presidential frontrunners. In my current chapter on the University of Chicago’s campus planning, … Continue reading →

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