Monthly Archives: January 2020

Hong Kong creates a little more parkland

Hong Kong is (famously) not a very democratic place, but, when it comes to things that do not matter very much to the government in Beijing, there can be a considerable amount of public discussion. A case in point is … Continue reading

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Was Chicago still building “too much” in 2018?

I’ve put up three previous posts1 in which I pointed out that, given Chicago’s continued population losses, there was an enormous amount of residential building in the Chicago urban area, or at least an enormous amount of residential-building permit-filing. This … Continue reading

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