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Originally Posted by marothisu
What's the website? I'll get my fiancee to translate.
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I don't think I knew you got engaged! Congrats!
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Originally Posted by 10023
Gross. That is a terrible, un-urban development too. The set back from the street is inexcusable. And it’s being built by a mediocre college with a small endowment, so the quality of construction isn’t going to be impressive either.
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Ignoring the ad hominem attack, tons of universities in urban settings if similar density have buildings with setbacks like that. The DePaul Center in the Loop has a setback creating a small plaza at State and Jackson, also DePaul's Arts and Letters Hall in Lincoln Park has a setback similar to the Loyola rendering.
Further afield, Harvard's Smith Campus Center across from Harvard Square has a similar-sized setback. A ton of MIT's buildings incorporate setbacks. As do University buildings everywhere.
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Originally Posted by SolarWind
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I had thought that the new glass-topped dinner cruise boat was pretty cool until I saw photos of
these three Tokyo Cruise River boats - Chicago should have cool, modern boats to go with all the new construction along the River.
Don't use the "English" button, as not all pages are available, view it in Chrome and select English when Chrome prompts you to ask if you want the page translated. The link above opens on the Himiko boat, and from there you can view the Emeraldas and the Firearma boats, too, all very cool and modern-looking!
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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
I read pseudo pomo as pseudo porno and was very confused.
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I thought of "pseudo-porn" while watching Love, Actually this past week. I love that movie, but it would need a lot of cuts before my conservative mother could enjoy it - probably only be an hour long by that point, lol!
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Originally Posted by JK47
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That's a feature not a bug. The biggest challenge facing students right now is affordability, especially in the face of declining public support for higher education. One of the big drivers of increasing costs is the arms race in student residential construction (as part of the effort to attract the best students). Schools shouldn't be spending a fortune on their residential buildings...especially if it depletes funds that could be used towards instruction or financial aid.
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I completely agree. Another overlooked factor with luxury-finish academic construction is that it goes even further in alienating lower-income students. I came from a working class family and was often quite uncomfortable with the fancier parts of my college experience - and I arrived at college already having put a lot of thought into class issues and related things, and had the benefit of some family having gone to University so I had a good idea of what to expect. I can only imagine what it might be like to try and transition from a working poor part of Appalachia to pretty much any school in the Northeast, or especially to any of the famous private schools in California.
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Originally Posted by Barrelfish
The Treasure Island at Clark and Elm has a 4 story parking garage on it. Could also be a good redevelopment spot.
That's also on the north end of that 2 block stretch of Clark that's full of car dealerships for some reason. If a treasure island redevelopment started the process of chipping away at those, I would be quite happy.
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I'd be cool with pushing the rest of those dealers over in the vicinity of Division and the Kennedy. Then redeveloping Clark with TOD-compliant housing, a bit of commercial, and then just enough retail space to replace any non-car space being lost.