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Chicago has more good developments because it has more developments. Because it's a bigger city. It also has more bad developments. Because it has more developments. Because it's a bigger city. I don't know what the ratio of good to bad is for either city, but I would bet the difference is not as large as some here seem to think. Similarly, Chicago continues to needlessly tear down historic buildings at a rapid clip.

All Ohio cities, and Ohio as a whole, suffer from this problem. I think it has to do with having fallen from better times. Save Columbus, all of Ohio's cities have seen better days. Cincinnati peaked in the mid-1800's. Cleveland peaked in the early-mid-1900's. With the glory days becoming more and more distant, and economic struggles that have resulted from sprawl and white flight (and industrial collapse), people don't see much to be optimistic about. Most people who grew up in Ohio have seen their hometowns declining (in population, jobs, and wealth) their entire lives. People also suffer from a "grass is greener" complex. The national media doesn't help, as it perpetuates the idea that the coasts are the only relevant parts of the country. Considering LA and NYC are the only real media hubs, it's not hard to see why this might be the case. The pessimism is, of course, self-fulfilling to a degree. Without it, all of Ohio would have a much better shot at reaching its full potential. That goes especially for Cincinnati and Cleveland, IMO.

Keith M., if you want to live in an urbanist/cyclist's paradise, I don't understand why you're in North America at all. The difference between Mpls and Cbus is minuscule, in the grand scheme.

Definitely sounds fun, but I'll be hundreds of miles away!

Makes me wonder when Nexis4Jersey is going to bring his talents and his camera over to Cincy. (The Cardinal line is great for viewing fall foliage!)

Maybe he was thinking of the bridgedoggle.

Wowowowowow! Amazing. Hidden gem, if there ever were one.

mike. brown.

Very nice! I need to get back to Philly.

NJ has so much vinyl siding (on historic urban buildings)! :(

They are playing a balance game. They want Issue 48 to fail, but they want to continue to fan the flames of the streetcar debate. It's a major revenue source for their dying brand.

IIRC, OTR had minimal growth (or even a small loss). But that's hard to interpret, due to depopulation after the riots at the beginning of the decade (and subsequent repopulation in the second half). Downtown proper and the UC area, however, saw the biggest growth in the city and much of the region.

E&S, you seem to have a strong belief in the entropy of decline. Many, many cities aren't declining, and there's no reason we have to be one of them that is. Attracting immigrants is a great idea which I definitely support, but the way cities that prosper do so is by attracting the young, educated, and mobile. Immigrants alone will not bring prosperity. See: Newark, NJ or basically any other coastal city which can't catch a break. Your pessimism led you to a correct evaluation of the census numbers, but those who disagreed with you had a very good basis for their disagreement: the official census estimates. Those numbers don't materialize out of thin air, you know. The metro area is growing. If a small portion (any portion) of that growth were occurring in the city, we would not be seeing decline. It's not unrealistic to bolster the city's amenities in a way which will attract some of that growth to the city. It's not unrealistic to think the streetcar is such an amenity, with the ability to guide that growth and boost the amount of people that come. Even shrinking wouldn't be terrible if the tax bases weren't shrinking along with the population. That means attracting and keeping the educated, and enhancing accessibility to jobs for those with limited mobility.

I love the Velvet Underground, but I admit I haven't explored their catalogue as much as I should. I've never really gotten into Lou Reed's solo material, but I would imagine there are some gems in there. Definitely a band ahead of its time. Lately, I've been getting back into punk. I don't get to listen to it all that much because my partner can't stand it. So I've been listening to it on my commute.

^ It seems E&S likes to make wild guesses, then get satisfaction when like 5% of them are right. (The census comes to mind.) At least it's something different and sometimes leads to interesting discussions. He also has some interesting knowledge and is willing to do some research (which often would be better done prior to making said wild claims, but I digress). Overall, I'm glad he's around.

This Texas-Detroit game is ridiculous. I haven't been watching it but I happened to check the score...15-4? What??? Bottom of the 7th. Texas is clearly going to eliminate Detroit.

Downtown is dead. Shopping malls are dead. Maybe the Enquirer should do an article about major chains being replaced with local businesses downtown. That seems like an easy case to make.

tedolph, I think the OWS people are pretty ticked about the "last man to hold the bag" games as well as free trade over fair trade. No one likes TARP except politicians and Wall Street.

Until I have equal rights across the board, let them eat little debbie cakes and kick rocks! Most of the people eating little debbie cakes and kicking rocks are minorities.

LOL. John came out blasting.

Last show I went to was at some indie-type club in NYC and as soon as there was the faintest hint of pot smoke in the air, some suit looking straight out of Men in Black was rummaging through the crowd looking suspiciously at everyone's hands. Somewhat ruined the vibe of the show to see them being so uptight about something fairly normal for this type of event. Cincy seems much more liberal than NYC in this area.

^ I think you give them too much credit. Smitherman rides the COASTtails and Spring is marginal at best. COAST gets its power from the Enquirer and WLW. Unless the Enquirer shapes up or ships out, the polarization and battles-to-the-death will persist. It's media profiteering which is the city's worst enemy. Media is the backbone of a functioning democracy, and all that.

Ohio came in 20th for states with the most mental illness. 20.4% of the state's population has some sort of mental illness or other. But the reason I'm really sharing this is that Cincinnati's Music Hall is the picture used to represent the state, which I find pretty awesome. Beats the image for most states by a mile! Especially Idaho's, #3, which shows an outhouse with only two walls. Really?! LOL http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/mental-health-states-america_n_1007844.html#s404463&title=20_Ohio

The anti-3CDC website is registered to someone who was featured in Xavier's admissions literature. This is something Sherman's not happy about, since he supports 3CDC and works at Xavier. More generally, it shows just who is behind the anti-3CDC webpage. (The Coalition for the Homeless and Mr. Springer.)

Anyone else using both bridges in one trip would be tolled twice, too, under the conditions being discussed. Anderson residents wouldn't be "singled out", per se -- it's just that their likely commuting pattern would put them in such a position. I agree this is a feature, not a bug, of bridge tolling. It might be considered a bug of the placement of Anderson that it is especially reliant on expensive infrastructure.