professor schwieterman: there is a time difference. it is quite competitive. >> with the twin cities, i looked a lot at universities and how many students there are. because the university of minnesota is so large, it has such a big population, it is important that i added wisconsin on the route as well given all of the travel, especially for college students going for interviews or being able to travel between cities is important. a lot of college students don't have cars. >> that is a factor we talked about last week. madison, that is why it is outsized in interest. there is a rail friendly demographic. that has me the demise of the high-speed rail controversial. great comments. let's look at why this creates a difficult public process. we take these routes and show which cases agencies have an effect prevented a route from being lost or abandoned as railroads cut back. we take the map and look at routes. many of them have had segments where significant links were at risk of being pulled up or torn up. the private railroad industry h

next depaul university professor, joseph schwieterman talks about the evolution of railroad stations. he talks about how terminals have been closed are redeveloped and the factors that contribute to how the land is reused. he describes what it means for small towns to lose railroad business. this class is about an hour. >> tonight we have a special lecture. we will talk about redeveloped ment. nice to have him on campus. we will look at redevelopment. we are going to study a place that is trying to make a transformation from a railroad city with lots of railroad employment and connections to a first-class center with expansion of o'hare. it involves redevelopment. a city that 10 or so years ago was labeled one of the 10 most dying cities in the united states. real excitement. it will be a fun project for you guys. we will talk for a little bit about why looking at redevelopment at the decline of the railroad industries a great way of how cities reinvent themselves. we are in downtown chicago. here is an old station. the first thing you probably see is the weather looks nice. one day w

next depaul university professor, joseph schwieterman talks about the evolution of railroad stations. he talks about how terminals have been closed are redeveloped and the factors that contribute to how the land is reused. he describes what it means for