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Dan Immergluck

@danimmergluck.bsky.social
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Professor Emeritus, Urban Studies & Planning, Writer Just Cities, Political Economy, Affordable Housing, and Community Development. Occasional film noir, music comments. DET-> CHI->ATL->CHI and a few others in between Opinions my own.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Her two best movies: On the Waterfront North by Northwest RIP
Eva marie saint
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Me: Interesting, a $1M award for "academics who pursue bold ideas that challenge prevailing orthodoxies—whether political, intellectual, or methodological—and hold the potential to reshape knowledge, policy, or society." Me, looking closer at who's behind it. 🤔🙄😠 www.thecarobtrust.org/the-prize
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pedestrian-ing in Chicago.
Crosswalk sign flattened by car.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry there are some serious omissions from this list (as well as ones that definitely shouldn’t be on it) First, Happy Valley should be top 10. And if Brit shows are allowed then where are Vera and No Offense (for starters)? And OTOH, also where are Goliath, The Sinner, and Godless?
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I hope this is missing key details, because 7% affordable (at only 80% AMI) is < Beltline IZ & city’s subsidy ordinance requirements. And why is Atlanta subsidizing (effectively) market-rate housing in one of the hottest parts of the city? @civicatlanta.bsky.social @julianbene.bsky.social
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Rereading @tyredden.bsky.social's excellent piece, "Cop City in Wakanda" and hadn't noticed that Atlanta Mayor Andre Dicken's calling me a "classic gentrifier" (among other things) in his angry (someone else called it "unhinged") response to a Linked-In post is now memorialized in scholarship. 🤣
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the all-time bangers. Apparently posted in 2022.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think @chicagotribune.com gets the award this week for strangest mismatch of article and photo/caption...
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Prominently displayed at the new Obama branch of the Chicago Public Library. 🤣
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I keep seeing this ad and it is…disturbing.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Double monarch! To be fair there are about a dozen right around here.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
maybe using this...
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
ummm, no, USPS
william F Buckley stamp
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Maybe she thinks she’s a swan, Idk.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The mayor of Atlanta is going to talk about racial zoning history in Atlanta. I’m guessing he is: 2) NOT going to be talking about his “2.0” zoning “reform” that does almost nothing; And 3) tout his 30-year TAD extension as the answer to inequality in the city. Can’t make this s%#t up.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ughhh.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When calling for universal health insurance makes you “far left,” but gutting the constitution, yanking people off the streets & flying them God knows where, and rampant corporate corruption make you just “Republican” or “conservative.” FFS @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/09/07/p...
CNN headline calls progressives “far left”
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Bike the Drive. Perfect weather for it.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not everything sucks. Packed Chicago Jazz Festival.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This banger (not) from @chicagotribune.com… Chicago is at a 61 year low in violent crime but the *real* problem is Mayor Johnson unfairly dissing the great Rahm Emanuel (who covered up the police shooting of a Black teenager).
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Another #1 ranking for metro Atlanta to be proud of (along with worst in economic mobility, large metros for eviction filings, etc.) Metro Atlanta surpasses Northern Virginia to take the lead! 😱 www.ajc.com/business/202...
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Can’t help but think if this trend in Chicago were happening under a not-left, not-Black, “business-friendly” mayor, you would see folks lie less about crime being “out of control” when it is at a 61-year low. chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Bluesky all weekend: Trump-Miller regime is full of and surrounded by Nazis but the media will still be talking mostly about Hasan Piker’s influence on Monday morning. @washingtonpost.com this morning:
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Probably the funniest thing I will see this month. Thanks @cnn.com, for this embarrassing twaddle: “the first lady and her team are intensely engaged in a more focused policy operation than during her husband’s first term”
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Need a campaign to teach campaigns how to make decent charts.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Heart-wrenching. This morning by @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social in Grant Park.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
YAY!!!🎊🥳🎉🎁🎈
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Some A+ live trolling in front of Atlanta City Council.
acpc.
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Atlanta Community Pr... ° @atlpr... • 6d David Serrano, posing as "Jeffry B.
Gringoballs" of "Shepherd Al," says the company's ultimate goal is safety, and to do so it will track all elected and non-elected government officials through hackable Al cameras, license plate readers and facial recognition.
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Atlanta Community Pr...O @atlpr... • 6d
Serrano, as Gringoballs, says his company is proposing a new data center in Tuxedo Park, an affluent white neighborhood.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
POTUS siting.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We are in hell. 😱
Influencers enter mix in mayoral race
Social media video creators rise in importance for
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little to help viewers distinguish a
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By Jake Sheridan
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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to get their message out without
Chicago's next mayoral election
bour compensation and disclosure
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to acknowiedse paying a content
but one, Johnson campaign director
discourse about the mayor. Several facing the scrutiny and pesky ques-
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creator to post a political video
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But as Mayor Brandon Johnson
The disclosure late last month
the Tribune they had not been paid,
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This one from 2021 popped up. Seems relevant. From that notorious lefty.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Ben Folds with the Grant Park Symphony. At Pritzker Pavilion.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I give up. She is taking over Chapter 6.
Dog on chair with laptop.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Academic austerity you say? Well I guess that doesn’t count brand new shiny buildings for business schools. (Where they will crank out folks who go on the complain about “government waste and inefficiency.”)
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Quite a few. But this one is up there.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I am all for removing zoning barriers to SRO housing. But some of the nostalgia about “resident hotels” & SROs from many decades ago glosses over the horrible conditions of some of these places. A lot of really bad stuff. (Below is from Wood’s Class Warfare in Black Atlanta)
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A day late to the John Lewis remembrances. My favorite personal memory is this one, when he came to my younger daughter’s elementary school and she was lucky enough to be picked to go up to the front to talk with him. Among other things, a kind man. Glad doesn’t have to see what is going on.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Excited to be in Atlanta at my old stomping grounds, Georgia Tech, on Monday to do the opening, in-person keynote for the International Planning History Conference. 9 AM EDT. Conference site: design.gatech.edu/iphs2026 I am told talk will be live-streamed here: teams.microsoft.com/meet/2301477...
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Some good news. Fulton County (GA) Board refuses to go along with Atlanta Mayor Dicken's TAD/TIF extension (until 2055) plan, which includes using old 25+ year old base values (which doesn't comply with state law(. Hopefully schools will follow. @atldemsoc.bsky.social @julianbene.bsky.social
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#Chicago is diverting hundreds of millions of TIF $ from one TIF to another & using $ that were partly intended for transit to subsidize a billionaire’s stadium project (including a parking garage in a transit-dense area). Meanwhile I can’t see > a few hundred yards due to the climate crisis.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It’s like 1969 Chicago came back to visit and it’s all because those darn Canadians don’t rake their forests properly!
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I'm sorry but choosing who to root for in the final could not be easier...
Trump like right-wing nut jobdemocratic socialist
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hate to agree with son of billionaire cofounder of Carlyle Group, but he is arguing for NOT diverting $100s of millions of public $$ (that could go to transit) for a parking garage & other miscellany for a new stadium for (another) billionaire's soccer team. www.fieldofschemes.com/2026/07/15/2...
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“SHOULD EVERYONE HAVE A DECENT HOME? OBSCURE HUD DOCUMENT SUGGESTS NO” By Alan Mallach shelterforce.org/2026/07/13/s...
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Shocker.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
She isn’t bugging me to play with her. She doesn’t like me sitting in this chair, because it is hers.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Me, still wondering where all the City of Atlanta's supposed housing trust fund $65 million in commitments has gone, when the city's own housing tracker only shows $10M going to actual housing development projects (closed and in pileline) in the city as of today. 🤔
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Inflation is not a big deal for poor folks if they just use their smartphones! Just be “scrappy”! Says the hedge-fund-owned @chicagotribune.com editorial page.
Once-mainstream destinations like Disney
World increasingly sell different experiences at different price points. The long lines at popular rides tell the story:
The price-conscious endure long waits, while those who pay for more expensive tickets can cut over to a shorter line.
Galling? Perhaps. But the lesson is old as time: People need to live within their means, and the good news is that technology is helping. In a K-shaped economy, scrappy consumers are finding the smartphone can be an equalizer.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I was wondering what my dog was saying to the other dogs at the dog park today.
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