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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 clcaev »

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…

Poverty, housing/employment, and generally, migration are hard topics.

The university has so many buildings in Hyde Park that they often make the decisions about which businesses are there or not. I've been happy with most of their choices recently; bringing in a Trader Joe, for example. However, some residents have differing opinions.

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

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Post by asteinhart »

clcaev wrote: post #30
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...

love that idea! reminds me of a piece by the philadelphia inquirer that i drew inspo from : https://www.inquirer.com/history/inq2/chinatown-history-time...

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

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asteinhart wrote: post #32
clcaev wrote: post #30

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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...

love that idea! reminds me of a piece by the philadelphia inquirer that i drew inspo from : https://www.inquirer.com/history/inq2/chinatown-history-time...

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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 UncleEntity »

OldManAndTheCpp wrote: post #29
UncleEntity wrote: post #27

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> 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.

What?

I'm pointing out that's what the op is doing through their faith in the historical methods of the universities 'community stabilization' efforts. What the op is proposing is exactly what the university did after the Supreme Court shut down the discriminatory laws on residential neighborhoods.

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

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Post by Kon-Peki »

inahga wrote: post #22
tdb7893 wrote: post #16

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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)…

You don’t have to go too far out of the city - more than 10% of the county land area is forest preserve. Inside the city, the far northwest side (along the river) and the far south side (big marsh/beaubien woods) are probably the best bets.

I know that the wooded section between the IC tracks and LSD from 47th street up to Oakwood/Pershing is a hiking trail very popular with birdwatchers. You can keep walking up to the 31st street beach parking lot, but I think it might technically be trespassing ;)

Naturally, if you want really good hiking, there is a daily train from Union Station that stops at the front gate to Glacier National Park. You can also take the South Shore train eastwards - there are 3 stops adjacent to the Indiana Dunes (both the state and national parks).

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

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Post by auntienomen »

wbl wrote: post #15
madcaptenor wrote: post #13

This is great. My only complaint is that I have literally never been to that part of Chicago, which obviously isn't their fault. I would be fascinated to see this for the urban universities I'm personally familiar with.

Go to the museum of science and industry. And Powells. And the Oriental institute.

And Rajun Cajun. :)

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

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Post by tptacek »

HDThoreaun wrote: post #21
tptacek wrote: post #20

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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

I didn't even see deep dish until I was 20 years old.

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

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Post by Steuard »

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…

Is there a place to submit an issue with the data? The final map makes it look like a bunch of properties around the neighborhood were purchased by the University between 2004 and 2005. But I recognize one of them (5125 S. Kenwood, just south of Hyde Park Blvd/51st St.) as my first grad school apartment: I lived there throughout the 1998-99 academic year, and it was definitely a university-owned/managed building at the time.
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