Tag: Chicago
Low-income neighborhoods would gain the most from green roofs in cities...
Ashish Sharma, University of Notre Dame
Heat waves aren’t just a source of discomfort. They’re the nation’s deadliest weather hazard, accounting for a fifth of...
Architecture in 2018: Look to the streets, not the sky
Sean Weiss, City College of New York
A decade after the global economic collapse, urban development is booming.
This is good news for architects. Indeed,...
Remembering America’s lost buildings
Kevin D. Murphy, Vanderbilt University; Carol Willis, Columbia University; Daniel Bluestone, Boston University; Kerry Traynor, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York,...
How union stakes in ailing papers like the Chicago Sun-Times may...
Marick Masters, Wayne State University
The recent purchase of the Chicago Sun-Times for a nominal US$1 by a consortium of labor-affiliated organizations and individual investors...
The backstory behind the unions that bought a Chicago Sun-Times stake
Brian Dolber, California State University San Marcos
An investment group led by former Chicago alderman and businessman Edwin Eisendrath and the Chicago Federation of Labor...
Why big-data analysis of police activity is inherently biased
William Isaac, Michigan State University and Andi Dixon, Columbia University
In early 2017, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a new initiative in the...
What anti-Trump activists can learn from Chicago ’68
David Farber, University of Kansas
So far, anti-Trump protests at the Republican convention in Cleveland have been relatively small in number, with marches in the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
