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Aaron M. Renn
Personal blog · urbanophile.comeconomicsculture
Aaron M. Renn's personal blog at urbanophile.com covers economics and culture. Since 2009, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Aaron M. Renn's blog on cities, covering Detroit's revival and decline, parking policy and urban shrinkage. HN commenters cite it as a source on Detroit and Rust Belt cities.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
All Things Aaron
What Hacker News says?
If anyone in city government is smart Chicago is going to have no real choice but to go against this trend because of its utterly atrocious parking meter deal 10+ years ago - or they're going to have to take that glut of spaces and make them free parking to try to get out of the deal. Basically the city committed to keeping a fixed number of street parking spaces for 75 years in exchange for a pittance. If spaces ar…
Comment linking /2018/05/17/chicago-parking-meter-lease-slow-motion-train-wreck-only-has-65-more-years-to-go/
on “American Cities Are Drowning in Car Storage”Submitted Do Cities Really Want Economic Development? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> This isn't a unique problem, and we need a plan for healthy shrinking of cities and countries. I'll add as someone from the rust belt, while we do need to understand how to shrink cities, a lot of this shrinking in the central city was self-inflicted by sprawl. The metro populations of many of these rust belt cities stalled out in the 1950's-70's but for the most part has been relatively stable since then. Yes, we…
Comment linking /2010/04/27/chuck-banas-this-is-sprawl/
on “Detroit Was Crumbling, Now It's Reviving”Submitted Querying IRS Migration Data on the Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHe's a sociology professor at the University of Chicago, not some slack-jawed rube. Also, the point of the article is that success as gang rappers makes these boys targets for other gangs and their lives and options become limited, not that they're a danger to anyone outside of the gang territories. Chicago is a complicated city - the safe parts are among the safest of any American city, and the unsafe parts are so…
Comment linking /2013/08/12/the-growing-public-safety-inequality-gap-in-chicago-by-daniel-hertz/
on “Dispatches from the Rap Wars”Submitted Big Ten Universities’ National Footprint as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe first hit for "grocery shops in detroit" is an article debunking the idea that there are no grocery shops in Detroit: http://www.urbanophile.com/2011/01/25/yes-there-are-grocery-... Of course, perhaps you live in Detroit, and have 2014-era information, in which case you would know more than me. I merely decided to search for this because I recalled reading years ago this guy who wrote a blog article about his fa…
Comment linking /2011/01/25/yes-there-are-grocery-stores-in-detroit-by-james-griffioen/
on “Detroit Could Become the Silicon Valley of the Midwest”Submitted A Better Way to Look at Urban and Demographic Data – Beta Testers Wanted as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThanks for the recco. I appreciate it. I hope you'll all check out the blog. By the way, I'm a hacker myself. I wrote the only utility in the world I'm aware of that will actually recover data out of corrupted tarballs, gzrecover: http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/coding/gzrt/gzrt.html Along with other free software. Cheers!
Comment linking /arenn/coding/gzrt/gzrt.html
on “Plowing Detroit Into Farmland”Submitted A Piazza in a McDonald's Parking Lot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAnyone interested in this really should read Aaron Renn's blog The Urbanophile http://www.urbanophile.com/ - he wrote the New Geography article. He writes mainly on the Midwest but uses it as a lens to examine urban issues. He's one of the sharpest urban thinkers out there.
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on “Plowing Detroit Into Farmland”Google Search the title. Google defeats all paywalls. Also relevant: http://www.urbanophile.com/2011/07/31/replay-migration-matte...
Comment linking /2011/07/31/replay-migration-matters/
on “Census Shows New York Exodus”
