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Trains, Art, History, #Humanity
Sometimes everything just falls into place. I attended a special event yesterday at Chicago Union Station, unveiling a new artwork in the Station’s new/old Metropolitan Lounge, located in the lower...
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Shared History: The Mecca Flat Revealed at IIT Architecture
Yesterday, I attended an event at The IIT College of Architecture celebrating the recent recovery of architectural elements and artifacts from the Mecca Flat — the historic residential building which...
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Since I posted about the event at IIT earlier this week, Lynn Becker of ArchitectureChicago Plus has reposted a piece he wrote about the full story of IIT and Mecca Flats in 2014. He originally...
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#Englewood Thoughts… h/t #CarlaBruni
Carla Bruni is a colleague of mine at The School of the Art Institute, Associate for Outreach at PlaceEconomics and she posts compelling observations about Chicago neighborhoods on FB. She posted this...
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#Gendered Spaces, #Urban and Otherwise
I had a conference call this morning with my colleagues at The Center for the Living City, and it was the most exciting conversation I’ve had in a while. It featured Daphne Spain as guest speaker; she...
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#Mr.Rogers, Cesar Sayoc, Robert Bowers and Jane Jacobs
Earlier this year, I wrote a post asking, “Do we have what it takes to live in Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood?” I’ve been thinking about what I wrote in the last week, since the horror of the murders in...
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Lu & Jorja Palmer House, 3656 S. King Drive
Source: Lynn Becker/ ArchitectureChicago Plus With many thanks to Lee Bey (who posted this recently on FB)… the beauty of this house feels like a gift for the New Year. I’m sure I’ve driven by it, but...
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What makes your neighborhood, yours?
Maybe you’ve visited New York and its Strand Bookstore, and maybe you haven’t. But wherever you live, I’d bet there are at least a few retail establishments in your neighborhood, that have helped make...
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The 21st century significance of #NotreDame
REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RC1FA7846930 Occasionally, the disparate parts of one’s life are tied up in a giant bow. That’s happened to me this week with the inferno at Notre...
View ArticleThis shouldn't have to be said: #Targeting Cultural Sites is a War Crime
Please join me and more than 50,000 scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences throughout the US and around the world to remind the President of the United States that targeting...
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