Category Archives: Urban Planning

Who Is John Galt?

Posted on March 2, 2011 by LaDale Winling

Paul Krugman enthuses about trains. Anyway, my experience is that of the three modes of mechanized transport I use, trains are by far the most liberating. Planes are awful: waiting to clear security, then having to sit with your electronics … 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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Columbia and Eminent Domain

Posted on May 23, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Let me pause in my research on campus expansion and eminent domain at the University of California Berkeley to talk about…universities and eminent domain. Manhattanville property owners had their day in state appeals court Thursday, arguing against the use of … Continue reading →

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New York Times

Posted on May 15, 2009 by LaDale Winling

One of the most annoying things about the Times is their fealty to New York real estate. You can see the way it shapes their content in showing off working architects in Sketchpad, their profiles of architecture students, overpriced apartment … 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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Wouldn’t It Be Nice?

Posted on February 3, 2009 by LaDale Winling

The Illinois Appellate Court took a strike at Chicago’s Landmarks ordinance this week, issuing a ruling from a pair of Chicago landowners (one of whom is an executive for real estate firm Draper & Kramer) that terms the ordinance “vague” … Continue reading →

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A New Transportation Coalition

Posted on January 3, 2009 by LaDale Winling

How about that? Big Steel wants to get on board with the planner people to get a piece of the stimulus package via funding for mass transit projects. The industry, in response, is lobbying the Obama transition team for infrastructure … Continue reading →

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Review Essay: Railroads and Metropolitan Form

Posted on December 27, 2008 by urbanoasis

I was asked to write a review essay of four recent books related to the theme of transportation and urban form. My draft version is available on the sidebar. One important book I refer to is David Scobey’s Empire City, … 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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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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