Risky routes: the world’s oil chokepoints

Risky routes: the world’s oil chokepoints

by | Nov 16, 2016 | Energy

Robin Mills is head of Qamar Energy and a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. His report, “Risky Routes: Energy Transit in the Middle East,” was published by Brookings in April 2016. It charts the whole spectrum of risk, from a temporary diminution of...
Review of Planning Chicago

Review of Planning Chicago

by | Oct 31, 2016 | Books, Planning

Planning Chicago by Jon DeVries and Brad Hunt, calls for a return to big ideas in a city once famous for bold planning. The authors decry the lack of vision and failure to implement that has beset Chicago planning in recent decades. And they show the maleffects of...
Calumet area vision

Calumet area vision

by | Oct 30, 2016 | People & Places, Planning

During 2005-08, I led a non-profit environmental organization in the industrial Lake Calumet area. The area was covered with the huge brown fields left by the disappearance of steel making two decades before. And interspersed with degraded natural lands. The landscape...
Chicago

Chicago

by | Oct 20, 2016 | Cities

Chicago is one of the world’s great cities but its future isn’t so certain. The 2nd annual Global Cities Forum, held downtown during three days in June, asked many questions about the world’s top cities. Our town stood shoulder to shoulder with the giants and fared...
Transportation plan for Cook County

Transportation plan for Cook County

by | Aug 19, 2016 | Planning

Cook County once led the way in planning for and building the expressways that now run through the heart of the city. I reported on the county’s first comprehensive transportation plan since 1940, writing for BuiltWorlds. The new plan is about walking and...