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Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Re: Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by HDThoreaun »

tptacek wrote: post #20
tdb7893 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just moved away from Chicago but it took me a few years to appreciate the city (and I never found visiting that compelling). I miss it now though, I think the best way to learn to appreciate the city is to go out and do things in the city and find the stuff you like. There is tons of great music, food, art museums, shows (especially improv, idk if the IO Theater is back running but the Improv Shakespeare that they…

The easiest bit of advice is to get out of the Loop; the city Chicago boosters won't shut up about is mostly out in the neighborhoods. Also: our real pizza is thin-crust.

Stop gatekeeping our pizza. Deep dish is also our real pizza

Re: Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by inahga »

tdb7893 wrote: post #16
costcopizza wrote: post #12

Thanks for this. I have an impending move to Chicago and really haven't connected with the place the 6 or so times I've been the last year. Maybe some history will help.

I just moved away from Chicago but it took me a few years to appreciate the city (and I never found visiting that compelling). I miss it now though, I think the best way to learn to appreciate the city is to go out and do things in the city and find the stuff you like. There is tons of great music, food, art museums, shows (especially improv, idk if the IO Theater is back running but the Improv Shakespeare that they…

> You can find pretty much anything there, the only thing I struggled with is I like the outdoors and there isn't good hiking (but Chicago actually has really good birdwatching in the city).

Lincoln Park north is not what I would call "good hiking", but I think it's nice for those who like the outdoors. Good for daytime walks, large beaches, dog beach, bird sanctuary, some small natural areas, lakefront trail (paved).

For good hiking, yes you'll have to drive out of the city.

Re: Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by jobs_throwaway »

> While the University has emphasized the positive impact the projects will have on the local economy, some residents are concerned about rising rent and how much benefit will reach the community as opposed to investors.

What a non-issue. You have this massive development that's going to benefit your community and you're concerned because the people who actually contributed to it are going to benefit as well? The entitlement is just unreal.

I've lived on one of the streets mentioned in the article and its hard to overstate how shockingly dangerous the area is. Hearing gunshots was a regular occurrence. I knew someone who intervened in a robbery and was shot and nearly killed. I wouldn't allow friends to come visit after dark because I feared for their safety. If anything, the University and its police force should do more to rid the neighborhood of its anti-social element.

Re: Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by asteinhart »

this is mine! thanks for the share. code for the project is all open source here: https://github.com/chicagomaroon/data-visualizations/tree/ma.... this was my first larger custom story project. maplibre for the map, waypoints for scroller helper and the rest just vanilla js/html/css. hosted on github pages. i have another project that has lots of other examples of cool viz i like (filter to about visualizations) https://content-we-love-54fa79867044.herokuapp.com/

Re: Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by teachrdan »

dustincoates wrote: post #14

Tangentially related, but still worth checking out: the book "Gang Leader for a Day" [0] touches on this topic of how the university interacts (or doesn't) with its poorer neighbors. Highly recommend the read. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Leader_for_a_Day

I second this recommendation. Perhaps most interesting is that despite the author literally spending thousands of hours with literal gang members, the only time he's truly afraid is when he's describing the police gang that's been shaking down drug dealers and ordinary residents of the public housing in which he does his research.

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2023/02/05/chi...

Re: Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by UncleEntity »

jobs_throwaway wrote: post #24

> While the University has emphasized the positive impact the projects will have on the local economy, some residents are concerned about rising rent and how much benefit will reach the community as opposed to investors. What a non-issue. You have this massive development that's going to benefit your community and you're concerned because the people who actually contributed to it are going to benefit as well? The ent…

> If anything, the University and its police force should do more to rid the neighborhood of its anti-social element.

AKA "the blacks".

Ironically, you are positing the same concerns as the people you claim are "entitled" but instead of questioning the university's policies you want to give them more power to enforce racial segregation.

Re: Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by OldManAndTheCpp »

UncleEntity wrote: post #27
jobs_throwaway wrote: post #24

> While the University has emphasized the positive impact the projects will have on the local economy, some residents are concerned about rising rent and how much benefit will reach the community as opposed to investors. What a non-issue. You have this massive development that's going to benefit your community and you're concerned because the people who actually contributed to it are going to benefit as well? The ent…

> If anything, the University and its police force should do more to rid the neighborhood of its anti-social element. AKA "the blacks". Ironically, you are positing the same concerns as the people you claim are "entitled" but instead of questioning the university's policies you want to give them more power to enforce racial segregation.

No, the anti-social elements. It is wrong to paint an entire racial group as anti-social, as you are doing.

Re: Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by clcaev »

asteinhart wrote: post #25

this is mine! thanks for the share. code for the project is all open source here: https://github.com/chicagomaroon/data-visualizations/tree/ma... . this was my first larger custom story project. maplibre for the map, waypoints for scroller helper and the rest just vanilla js/html/css. hosted on github pages. i have another project that has lots of other examples of cool viz i like (filter to about visualizations) htt…

This is absolutely lovely. Thank you.

The underlying map is modern across all timelines. What would be super awesome is if the underlying map would also change, based on historical propery deeds, maps and ariel photos. For example, the 1893 world's fair is when much housing was constructed. The entire coastline also changed during this timeline. This would be an order of magnitude more work...

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