[VivaLFuego]

Originally Posted by the urban politician

If I recall correctly, a whole bunch of plans, community meetings, workshops, seminars, etc etc with community involvement and outlines of community goals, with the assistance of urban planners emphasizing walkability and creating an urban neighborhood occurred in the past few years for the New Communities program in the south and west sides of Chicago. Bronzeville was included.

And what came of all that? The Metropolis strip mall.

All this planning is BS if you can't simply tell a developer to go back to the drawing board and spend 15 minutes making their project more transit & pedestrian friendly.

Yep.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...,71.63,,0,4.26

Rampant unplanned development is definitely not the first thing that comes to mind there.