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A Tale of Two Parks in One City
What makes a good park? Chicago has two of the biggest, boldest examples of very different ideas about parks right beside each other on its downtown lakefront. More than 600 metres wide and nearly 2...
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Chicago’s Comfortable Hard Edge
The Chicago River is a very urban waterway, about as far from ‘natural’ as any river gets. Over a century ago, it was so polluted that Chicagoans dug a canal to the Mississippi River and used the...
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Double-decker Downtown Chicago
Exploring Chicago’s downtown “Loop” for the first time is a bit like stumbling into an M.C. Escher drawing with improbable dimensions and physical laws. This is the result of many of the streets near...
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Craving Caffeine in Chicago
Why is it so hard to find a café in Chicago? I made my first visit to the city this past spring and was struck by how rarely I came across any cafés, coffee shops, or really any place selling just...
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Alexander Calder’s Flamingo, Chicago
Alexander Calder’s “Flamingo” is located at the juncture of the three buildings that make up the Chicago Federal Plaza designed by Mies van der Rohe. The sculpture’s vivid color and sinuous form...
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OpenCity Weekly Review
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you shared streets in Chicago, an in depth look at the public spaces of...
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Weekly Review
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you Munich’s “bike autobahn”, breaking ground on Chicago’s first shared...
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The Wabash Lights – The Beta Test from Jack C. Newell on Vimeo. “The Wabash Lights,” a public-art idea from the minds of local designers Jack Newell and Seth Unger reached (and actually surpassed) its...
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October Events
It’s officially fall, but the events aren’t slowing down. This October we are celebrating cities and design. Here are just a few events taking place this month: Nuit Blanche October 3, 2015 Toronto,...
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Legacy at the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Chicago has a long history of reinvention. After the Great Fire of 1871, the city has had to think big, dream boldly and push the boundaries of what is possible in the urban landscape. From the...
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Weekly Review
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you an easier way to get some reading in on your commute, streets as...
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