Hugh Bartling
@bartling.bsky.social
Director, Sustainable Urban Development MA program & School of Public Service, DePaul University. #ClimateChange #Bikes #Futbol. http://hughbartling.com
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At the moment Coco is featuring a pic of a robot on an un-plowed sidwewalk on their front page: framerusercontent.com/images/q8arQ...
October 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
At the moment Coco is featuring a pic of a robot on an un-plowed sidwewalk on their front page: framerusercontent.com/images/q8arQ...
Heartwood appears to be a real estate venture claiming to be a church to avoid paying taxes. In one of their buildings they rent out space to therapists. They also operate residential rental properties. They want to buy this property (taking it off tax rolls) & rent out food court stalls.
August 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Heartwood appears to be a real estate venture claiming to be a church to avoid paying taxes. In one of their buildings they rent out space to therapists. They also operate residential rental properties. They want to buy this property (taking it off tax rolls) & rent out food court stalls.
Looking forward to what they've done with Bloom's Sandymount Strand bit.
June 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Looking forward to what they've done with Bloom's Sandymount Strand bit.
For sure. I think the Evanston ordinance requires that you keep the amount of parking you currently have on-site, so a full garage conversion is expensive. I haven't seen a breakdown here on interior vs exterior. We're thinking of putting one in. Luckily we don't have a garage :)
May 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
For sure. I think the Evanston ordinance requires that you keep the amount of parking you currently have on-site, so a full garage conversion is expensive. I haven't seen a breakdown here on interior vs exterior. We're thinking of putting one in. Luckily we don't have a garage :)
My key takeaway from that article is that financing is a massive barrier. If he had to borrow 300k at current home equity loan rates, say at 8.32% for 15 years, you're talking a $3k monthly payment. ADUs are legal here in Evanston since 2020, but I think only a couple dozen have been built.
May 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My key takeaway from that article is that financing is a massive barrier. If he had to borrow 300k at current home equity loan rates, say at 8.32% for 15 years, you're talking a $3k monthly payment. ADUs are legal here in Evanston since 2020, but I think only a couple dozen have been built.
Surveys done by municipal governments are largely garbage: sampling bias, no-pretest of survey instruments, flawed interpretation, etc... Its largely a waste of time unless you want a perfunctory way to check off a 'community engagement' box for political reasons.
May 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Surveys done by municipal governments are largely garbage: sampling bias, no-pretest of survey instruments, flawed interpretation, etc... Its largely a waste of time unless you want a perfunctory way to check off a 'community engagement' box for political reasons.
If you are a mastodon user, here is shiny code I put together to post to bluesky & mastodon simultaneously: shinylive.io/r/editor/#co...
Shiny editor
shinylive.io
April 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If you are a mastodon user, here is shiny code I put together to post to bluesky & mastodon simultaneously: shinylive.io/r/editor/#co...
Via the bskyr package: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
bskyr: Interact with 'Bluesky' Social
Collect data from and make posts on 'Bluesky' Social via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Application Programming Interface (API), as documented at <<a href="https://atproto.com/specs/xrpc" t...
cran.r-project.org
April 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Via the bskyr package: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Is this Mexico City?
April 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Is this Mexico City?
I saw the box yesterday at Racine & Addison and wondered what was going on. Nice!
April 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I saw the box yesterday at Racine & Addison and wondered what was going on. Nice!
Stately, plump Mrs Dalloway came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
March 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Stately, plump Mrs Dalloway came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
Glad to see there is an R package for this! I have students use the "On the Map" app from the Census website, but this will be great to integrate into an R workflow!
March 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Glad to see there is an R package for this! I have students use the "On the Map" app from the Census website, but this will be great to integrate into an R workflow!
It is also interesting from a hyper-local perspective since #Evanston mayor Dan Biss--up for reelection next week--has been eyeing Jan's seat for years. Biss says he'll serve a full 2nd term if reelected but I'm sure he wasn't counting on someone jumping in to unseat Jan from the left so soon. 2/2
evanstonnow.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It is also interesting from a hyper-local perspective since #Evanston mayor Dan Biss--up for reelection next week--has been eyeing Jan's seat for years. Biss says he'll serve a full 2nd term if reelected but I'm sure he wasn't counting on someone jumping in to unseat Jan from the left so soon. 2/2