John Krause
My blogs
| Location | Chicago |
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| Introduction | I love my neighborhood. I live in Lincoln Park in Chicago. We’re close to beautiful Lake Michigan and downtown Chicago. There’s no place I’d rather live. But I’ve lived in enough different places to recognize that our streets are overrun with cars, unappealing for shopping and strolling around, and unsafe for biking. Our streets are congested with through traffic and parked cars, and public transit here is abysmal: buses stuck in traffic. But this blog is not about problems, it’s about solutions. Many cities around the world have revived their local economies by investing in walkable urbanism: one pedestrian-priority transit-optimized shopping street at the heart of each neighborhood. That’s what we’re going to do in Lincoln Park. This blog is not going to make any sense to you unless you’re willing to do three things: 1) Acknowledge that the status quo is suboptimal; 2) Believe that profound improvement is possible; and 3) Learn from other cities, even if you don’t want to live there. |