The Places of Sense Chronicles

Tag: #chicago

  • Readings – Killing Greektown

    Readings – Killing Greektown

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    Nicholas P. Kalogeresis
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    A month ago, or so, I missed out on participating in a work-related book club discussion session organized by one of my colleagues – as usual, I had a project deadline to meet.  I hated to miss it since the subject of discussion was the book, How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the…

  • Flaneuring – Uptown Public Art

    Flaneuring – Uptown Public Art

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    Nicholas P. Kalogeresis
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    I visit lots of places around the country – most often as a peripatetic consultant under the constraints and pressures of a work assignment.  A work assignment puts you on a strict schedule without much time for some necessary extras – like actually walking around an old downtown or neighborhood, trying to seep its patina…