A new book by Roosevelt University academics D. Bradford Hunt and Jon B. DeVries entitled Planning Chicago points to a gradual abandonment of the urban planning tradition for which late-19th and 20th century Chicago was famous. The birthplace of modern urban and regional planning has its planners "tucked away in bureaucratic woodwork" pens Tribune archicritic Blair Kamin in a review of the publication. The book's authors offer that more robust planning can produce solutions for the city's population loss, harness TIFs more responsibly, and wrest decision-making from sometimes-myopic Aldermen— holistic "policy planning", in other words. [Trib]
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