Photographer / graphic designer / urbanist living in Saint Louis Missouri.. Interested in cities, architecture, urban environments, music (Indie, Hip Hop, House, New wave, and Alternative) TV (Skins, Big Brother, Shameless, Supernatural) and random information graphs and photography
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Put on for my city
the great outdoors!
Cherokee street looking east from Wisconsin
it was such a nice day.. for a change..
send me an angel..
when the apocalypse happens the river will be verrrry high… unlike now..
The graphic above is meant to nominally mirror the one created by the NY Times and titled “A Chicago Divided by Killings”. There were 506 killings in Chicago in 2012, a 17% increase over the previous year and the second highest annual total since 2003. Twenty-first Ward Alderman Antonio French Tweeted a link to the Times’ graphic and stated that it would interesting to see a similar map of St. Louis. I agreed and figured I’d give it a shot.
The premise of the Chicago item was that killings there followed that city’s racial divides. The St. Louis map would seem to show very much the same. Race, income and educational attainment are closely aligned in neighborhoods across the city. The divide is so great, that in the “near homicides” neighborhoods (the 19 in which there were 20+ homicides over this period), the average homicide rate is estimated at 53 per 100,000 residents, while the rate in the “not near homicides” neighborhoods (the 18 that saw 0, 1 or 2 total homicides) is estimated at 2 per 100,000 residents. There are more than two St. Louis’s, but there are certainly two incredible extremes in the city.
God bless the people over at nextSTL for putting this together!!
St. Louis TIF case could have big implications beyond McKee's NorthSide plan
ST. LOUIS • The Missouri Supreme Court will consider developer Paul McKee’s massive NorthSide Regeneration plan this week, and people far beyond north St. Louis will be watching closely to see how it rules.
The court will hear 40 minutes of oral arguments Wednesday morning on the case, which has blocked nearly $400 million in tax increment financing — and McKee’s plans — for nearly three years. There’s no time frame for when the justices will rule.
At stake is the future of McKee’s grand plan to remake some of St. Louis’ most battered neighborhoods with potentially thousands of new homes and hundreds of acres of office, retail and industrial space. But also, more broadly, the ruling could affect the way cities and developers use one of the region’s most popular incentive programs.
The case hinges on St. Louis Circuit Judge Robert Dierker’s 2010 ruling that McKee’s plan was too vague to justify blighting two square miles of the city and authorizing nearly $400 million in TIF financing. It was a plan, he wrote, without any particular project.
….. This could turn out very bad and allow developers to get TIF money with no plan what to do with it. I don’t trust McKee at all and this ruling could change how TIFs are handled in Missouri. They already abuse Eminent Domain around here and this would allow them to blight whatever they wanted and apply for TIF money and never build anything. I’m sorry you better not get almost half a billion dollars without showing a master plan. We also don’t need the near north side to look like Winghaven Phase 2..
The new Mississippi River Bridge, coming along..
dude is always blowing me away.. down on the farm
