urbanity

Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 4 of 4)

Almost to the end.

I’m allowing myself a closing argument.

Flint has been in decline since before I was born, and very soon almost the entirety of its residents will only remember the city’s downfall. In the last fifty years, the population has halved, and Flint has gone from an expansionist vision of a future that saw it eclipsing competing cities to the possibility of demolishing whole neighborhoods that have emptied out.

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Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 3 of 4)

I have no idea why this space is configured this way; it’s located flush to the east side of the fourth floor of the main building, and a ladder adjacent to the entry runs up to the roof. The floorboards on the paths running around this space are rickety and not to be trusted.

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Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 2 of 4)

So I thought that I could get through this sucker in two posts, but that ain’t gonna happen. I’ll go for three posts and a short epilogue. Continuing on:

It’s the Liberty Bell!

To the balcony…

A better view of the theater.

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Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 1 of 4)

I have a lot of stories to tell from the last couple months… things got away from me during the job search. It’s not like I expect everyone to want to pore over my life story. This blog is basically a record of my experiences.

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Event: In support of Soviet-style Central Planning.

My brother sent me a link to this Kunstlercast. Podcast #64 is about the initiative to shrink Flint city limits, and Jim Kunstler spoke against in general terms against mandated shrinking. He said that he wasn’t familiar with the specifics of the situation in Flint, but his overall position seemed to be that city should rely on incentives and zoning to shift population.

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Event: Target store on target for fall 2010, despite lawsuit.

Read my article on Chicago’s Wilson Yard development published by the Chi·Town Daily News at Target store on target for fall 2010, despite lawsuit.

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Concept: Shake Rattle and Read and the Uptown Story.

Read my article on the Uptown book and music store Shake Rattle and Read at Bookish Us: Shake Rattle and Read and the Uptown Story.

This article has also been promoted on the Uptown Update blog.

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Concept: Ashburn, Chicago.

Today I explored Chicago’s Ashburn neighborhood because it’s the setting of several plays I am currently revising. That sentence implies a circular paradox. Why wouldn’t I have explored the neighborhood before drafting the plays? In a sense, I did.

When I was a First Year at the University of Chicago (in 1997), I chose Ashburn as a setting for a Frankenstein play because the name had a cool sound.

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