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I would love to have attended the Chicago Humanities Festival conference. Carol Colletta's summing up sounds intriguing, with lots of important issues and themes raised. The discussion around high-speed rail and how Chicago could be connected to a bunch of other great cities to maximize each one's potential depressed me a bit, insofar as I'm reminded that my city (Victoria) sits on an island, which leaves us only with ferries and airplanes... <sigh>
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The morning session had a consistent message: Chicago must dream big to compete with London, Paris, Beijing and Shanghai. These four cities were mentioned repeatedly, and the clear ambition is for Chicago to compete with these cities. But what made the first presentation this morning especially exciting was Rick Harnish, who runs Midwest High Speech Rail Coalition. He makes a compelling, detailed, persuasive case for high speed rail in the U.S. The coalition is pushing a high speed system for the Midwest that connects Minneapolis to Cincinnati, Detroit to St. Louis, with Chicago at the hub of the "X". If the increasing calls for federal investment in infrastructure continue, high speed rail could move from plan to reality. Putting all of these cities within 3 hours of comfortable travel from downtown Chicago will increase productivity, help centralize business in these city centers, likely lead to increased density around stations
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President-elect Barack Obama has talked openly and repeatedly about his support for high speed rail and, according to Rick, high speed rail also has the support of Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin. Could high speed rail really be in the near future of America?
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» Chicago Spire - Das höchste Wohnhaus der Welt … - architekturvideo.de - Das Video-Blog für Architektur, Stadtplanung und Immobilien
Four and a half minute video of Santiago Calatrava's planned "Chicago Spire" (also called "Fordham Spire"), which will be the tallest residential building in the world. Looks beautiful -- as does Chicago.
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