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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 tdb7893 »

inahga wrote: post #22
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…

> 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)…

I liked to bike the lake there, the lakefront in Chicago is pretty underestimated by people who don't live there. For hiking there's the dunes or Starved Rock but those are super busy a lot of the year (and at this point I've been to both a million times). I ended up needing to drive at least like 2.5 hours into Wisconsin for long hikes, which is a longer drive than I want for just a day trip. That means for the outdoors I up mostly just went birding in parks in the city, generally Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary or Jackson Park, which were really nice but not the same vibe as a good hike (there are some birding groups that will meet around the city that were nice to go with).

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

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HelloMcFly wrote: post #17
Aeolun wrote: post #5

This must be the first time I’ve seen the scrolling story thing actually work. Great job!

Interesting, it's been around for awhile, I have rarely had trouble. This one was the one that I loved the most: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/16/world/europe/... .

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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 jasonfarnon »

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…

"What a non-issue. You have this massive development that's going to benefit your community "

Yes, because it is no longer "your" community. Most of those residents complaining know they will in short order be priced out. The relatively few residents who own property and can hold onto it aren't the ones complaining.

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

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Post by JohnHammersley »

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…

Thank you for working on and sharing this project, it's a wonderful example of how maps help tell / connect the stories through the years. It was also nice to see the piece you drew inspiration from that you linked to in another comment.

I'm curious -- each section (after the transitional animation) seems like it translates quite well to being a fixed page, and I'm wondering if you've looked at there being an easy way to generate a version that could be printed?

The reason I ask is that I'm working on a family history project which involves various locations, maps, newspaper stories and old photographs, and whilst something interactive feels like it would be an engaging way to do it, for the long term it's always good to have a printed copy of anything :)

I could imagine if there was an easy way to generate a print version of your articles, some people would pay for a copy (that was printed professionally in a suitable photobook-style format).

Apologies if there is a simple way to generate this and I've missed it in my cursory glance around the code :)

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

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Post by pessimizer »

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…

> You have this massive development that's going to benefit your community

A community is made up of people, not real estate, and if you get priced out of your neighborhood, it is of no benefit to you. It's a "non-issue" like me kicking you out of your house and fixing it up, and then for some reason you're not happy about how much better the house looks now that you're on the street. A truly YIMBY view of the world.

Will the people who can only afford to live in a "shockingly dangerous" neighborhood, after being priced out, end up in a less dangerous place?

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

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Post by Cornbilly »

qingcharles wrote: post #44

One thing to note is that crimes committed on any of this property are usually hit with an "aggravating factor", because of it being a school, and can double the sentencing for a crime. I seem to remember a homeless fellow who used a key to extract some change from a vending machine that was surprisingly on UoC property and got a 12-year sentence. Also, not to be confused with the confusingly similar University of Il…

Even more confusingly, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign now has a Chicago location as well.

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

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Post by pessimizer »

nimish wrote: post #53
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…

Anti-gentrification is a very strange confluence of extreme small-c conservativism and leftism. Quite the odd bedfellows.

Whereas YIMBY-activism is a bunch of wealthy upper-middle class professionals who want what they want when they want it, sponsored by massive owners of real estate who would like that real estate to become more valuable.

Both conservatives and leftist are pro-community. Their opponents are wealthy migrant laborers who plan to make their money, then leave to go back to the communities they came from. In your city, they're YIMBYs. When they're back in the suburbs and little towns they came from, they'll be HOA warriors.

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

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Post by batguano »

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 Harold's Fried Chicken shack

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Post by stephen_g »

lurk2 wrote: post #56
giraffe_lady wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you start talking about actual human people in terms of "getting rid" of an "anti-social element" you know you've got an issue figured out and are definitely on the right side of it.

700 murders and 10,000 armed robberies per year.

That's wild - the country I live in (Australia) has 10x the population of Chicago but only half as many homicides per year. It's hard to imagine that many in one city...

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

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Post by lurk2 »

stephen_g wrote: post #69
lurk2 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

700 murders and 10,000 armed robberies per year.

That's wild - the country I live in (Australia) has 10x the population of Chicago but only half as many homicides per year. It's hard to imagine that many in one city...

Chicago doesn't even have the highest murder rate in America, that's the really wild thing.
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