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Planning Chicago

presentation before the American Planning Association Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Planning Chicago. Jon B. DeVries, AICP Director, Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate D. Bradford Hunt Associate Professor of Social Science and History. Planning Chicago. Chicago…

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Planning Chicago

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  1. presentation before the American Planning Association Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Planning Chicago Jon B. DeVries, AICP Director, Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate D. Bradford Hunt Associate Professor of Social Science and History

  2. Planning Chicago Chicago… • Once planned confidently: 1958-1974 • Has been innovative in Industrial Policy: 1983-2003 • Struggled with Neighborhood Planning: 1950s - present • Needs to implement recent plans: 2000 - present • Faces serious challenges: present and beyond • Should reinvigorate the planning function in the city

  3. Chicago Plans Confidently Comprehensive Planning for the city’s future, 1958-1974

  4. The Heyday of Modern Planning in Chicago 1958 - 1973 1958 1966 1973

  5. Richard J. Daley Consolidates Planning Power, 1956-1957 • Creates Public Building Commission of Chicago (1956) • Enacts Zoning Reform (1957) • Creates Department of City Planning (1957)

  6. Development Plan for the Central Area of Chicago, 1958 • “Compact, accessible Loop” • 50,000 new residents (middle-class) • New University of Illinois campus • Limited clearance and displacement • Endorsed Transit expansion

  7. Growth Coalition Mayor Richard J. Daley and city leaders viewing model of 1958 Development Plan for the Central Area of Chicago

  8. Railroad Space in Chicago, 1930 Encyclopedia of Chicago, 2004

  9. Development Plan for the Central Area of Chicago, 1958

  10. Downtown Living: Marina City (1963)

  11. New University of Illinois Campus (1964) University of Illinois Campus, no date, 1970s

  12. Clearance for new campus Clearance of Harrison-Halsted area for UIC campus Harrison-Halsted site under clearance, 1962

  13. Transit Investment, 1950s

  14. The 1966 Comprehensive Plan of Chicago • 16 sub-area plans for neighborhoods • $500 million in capital spending per year • Follow-on regulatory framework plans • Chicago 21 plan for central area

  15. The 1966 Comprehensive Plan of Chicago

  16. Follow-on Regulatory Plan: Illinois Center Illinois Central Rail Yards, 1947

  17. Illinois Center and Lakeshore East, 2012

  18. Follow-on Regulatory Plans:Lakefront Plan (1972) and Riveredge Plan (1974)

  19. Chicago 21 • Bold plans for downtown living • Bold Plans for Near South (Dearborn Park) • Transit ideas • State Street Mall

  20. “Chicago 21” (1973) and Dearborn Park

  21. “Chicago 21” (1973) and State Street Mall

  22. 1983 Central Area Plan: World’s Fair

  23. Innovative Industrial Policy Planning for Jobs, 1983 - 2003

  24. Industrial Policy and Planning • Planned Manufacturing Districts • Goose Island • Industrial Corridors • North Branch, Calumet Region • Planning for Job Growth • Ford Plant and Auto Supplier Park • Planning for Infrastructure • CREATE (freight rail)

  25. Context: Recession of 1981-1982 Shuttered LTV Steel plant, shuttered in 2001

  26. North Branch Industrial Corridor(includes Goose Island)

  27. Goose Island, Planned Manufacturing District, 2012

  28. Goose Island: Wrigley Innovation Center and A. Finkl Steel

  29. City of Chicago Industrial Corridors, 2011

  30. Industrial Corridors: Calumet Area Land Plan 2001

  31. Planning for Jobs: Ford’s Chicago Assembly PlantCalumet Industrial Corridor

  32. Chicago Auto Supplier Park

  33. Planning for Infrastructure:CREATE plan for freight rail

  34. Map of CREATE Projects, 2011

  35. Employment Disappointing, 2002-2010 • Industrial corridors: lost 19,279 jobs, or 16.3% • City of Chicago: gained 15,569, a modest 1.3% • Cook County (non-City): lost 72,080, or 5.7% • State of Illinois: lost 35,640, or 0.6% • U.S.A.: gained 2.3 million, or 2.1% • Manufacturing decline unabated: 37,434 in City; 53,761 more in Cook; 187,761 Statewide

  36. Neighborhood Planning Struggles Race, class, and the neighborhoods

  37. Neighborhood Planning Struggles • Urban Renewal • 1950s • Community Conservation • 1950s and 1960s • Backlash against Planning • 1970s and 1980s • The Return of Planning • LISC Quality of Life Plans Uptown, 2012

  38. Neighborhood Planning: Urban Renewal Urban Renewal on Chicago’s South Side, 1954 Lake Meadows (complete) and future South Commons site, 1955

  39. Neighborhood Planning: Community Conservation

  40. Community Conservation in the 1966 Comprehensive PlanLincoln Park Neighborhood: vacating Ogden Avenue

  41. Neighborhood Planning: Backlash against Top-Down Planning and the Rise of Community-Based Planning The Woodlawn Organization

  42. Neighborhood Planning: Uptown and “People’s Planning,” 1968

  43. Neighborhood Planning: Uptown, Voice of the People

  44. Mayor Harold Washington and Jobs

  45. Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) New Communities Program “Quality-of-Life” planning process

  46. Englewood Quality of Life Plan, 2005

  47. Chicago Needs to ImplementRecent Plans Central Area Plan 2003 Central Area Action Plan 2009

  48. Chicago Central Area Plan, 2003

  49. Office Growth in West Loop, Chicago Central Area Plan, 2003

  50. West Loop Transportation Center, 2003

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