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The Place Lab digest is a weekly round-up of pertinent news, opinion, investigations, and explorations of the arts, architecture, and city-building in Chicago and beyond.
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Guest Blogger Aaron Rose reflects on the Ethical Redevelopment Salon Series
Place Lab & Aaron Rose
Place Lab asked writer Aaron Rose to attend and write about each of the 9 Salon Sessions on Ethical Redevelopment. Her pieces describe and reflect upon the discussions, site visits, and related programming that happened on a monthly basis from July 2016 to April 2017.
Read the Salon Session 8 and Salon Session 9 pieces |
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What Place Lab is digesting
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10 Vital Programs Receiving NEA Grants This Year
Eileen Kinsella & Caroline Goldstein, ArtNet
From arts education to a folk festival to a clown conservatory, here are some of the organizations welcoming NEA grants.
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Stay up-to-date on Place Lab projects, events, news, and happenings with our dedicated blog, SITE.
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Gary's Arthouse: A Social Kitchen graduates first class of culinary entrepreneurs
Joseph S. Pete, NWI Times
Something is cooking at ArtHouse: A Social Kitchen in downtown Gary. The culinary business incubator, conceived of by South Side Chicago artist Theaster Gates and funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, just graduated its first class of entrepreneurs.
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For Challenges in U.S. Cities, Steal Ideas, Customize Solutions
Josh Cohen, Next City
It’s not that cities need to reinvent the wheel every time they try to fix something...The commonalities of the problems mean there are commonalities in the solutions — whether design, policy or programming. But there is likely no solution that can be taken from one city and implemented as-is in another. That was one of the major lessons from University of Chicago’s Place Lab.
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As Government Retrenches, Philanthropy Booms
David Callahan, The New York Times
Where will the leadership and money come from to take on urgent challenges? [We’re] already seeing an answer: Philanthropy will increasingly slide into the driver’s seat of public life, with private funders tackling problems that government can’t or won’t.
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Where's the Real 'Next Silicon Valley'?
Richard Florida, City Lab
A new report digs into the metrics of America’s emerging tech hubs, and finds some surprises. [More than eight] metros attracted more than a billion dollars in venture capital investment in 2016, including San Diego and Seattle with roughly $1.5 billion each; Chicago with $1.25 billion; and Greater Washington, D.C., with $1.1 billion.
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Miss last Friday's edition of the digest? Read it in the archives here.
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Urban terrorism isn’t going to stop. Can city planners help reduce its lethal impact?
Jon Coaffee, The Washington Post
Many cities aren’t ready for a new onslaught of urban terrorism. State security services have long been occupied with defending vulnerable urban spaces against attack, but until recently, the style of terrorist attack...seldom affected everyday city life. As we have seen from recent attacks, the modus operandi of terrorists has changed significantly in recent years and counter-responses, including urban planning, must adapt to this new reality.
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Justices to Hear Major Challenge to Partisan Gerrymandering
Adam Liptak, The New York Times
The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would consider whether partisan gerrymandering violates the Constitution, potentially setting the stage for a ruling that could for the first time impose limits on a practice that has helped define American politics since the early days of the Republic.
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'Disaster waiting to happen': fire expert slams UK tower blocks
Oliver Wainwright and Peter Walker, The Guardian
Architect Sam Webb says breaches of fire safety standards in UK are common and lessons from Lakanal House have not been learned.
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ASU researcher hopes shade-tracking tool will help pedestrians
KTAR News
To keep cool, it’s important to stay hydrated and stay in the shade. One Arizona State University researcher thinks the latter is more important than some people realize. Ariane Middel has created a tool that tracks shade, in hopes of distributing her research for future use on what route a person should choose when going somewhere.
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What smart planners are reading right now
Check out what publications planners all over the globe are following to stay in the loop on redeveloping, building, and maintaining better cities.
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CHA Approves Construction Financing For Logan Square LGBTQ Housing
Chuck Sudo, Bisnow Chicago
An LGBTQ-friendly 88-unit Logan Square development that will be split between affordable housing and Chicago Housing Authority allotments was approved for $12.5M in construction financing from CHA, Curbed Chicago reports.
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Pilsen's Iconic Casa Aztlan Murals Are Painted Over Ahead Of Apartment Conversion
Stephen Gossett, Chicagoist
For all those who are anxious about gentrification and displacement in Pilsen, there could hardly have been a more terribly apt visual metaphor. The iconic murals that adorned the front-facing exterior of Casa Aztlan's former space were painted over on Monday by crews ahead of the property's conversion into apartments.
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What are you thinking?
Is there something you'd like to see more of in our digest? Topics, interest areas, or subject matter that we're missing? Just havea couple of notes?
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What to do with dying malls? Readers suggest turning them into artist colonies, parks, apartments, homeless shelters
Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times
What to do with dying malls? Las Angeles Times' readers have weighed in, and they’ve got plenty of ideas.
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2017 Burnham Prize Competition
Chicago Architectural Club
In response to this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial prompting Make New History, the Chicago Architectural Club [announces] the 2017 Burnham Prize Competition: Under the Dome. This year’s Burnham Prize competition questions whether Chicago's St. Stephen’s Church dome can offer a new history by creatively re-thinking the dome’s contemporaneous state of ruin and dis-use.
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