Attention Chicagoans. (Chicagoites? Chicagoistes?) The Hyde Park Art Center, all aglow in a new location, is offering the chance to feel your city's roots. Or to feel some kind of roots, anyway: Among the reopening exhibition's new works is a modular green roof installed by Chicago artist Stuart Keeler, who says he was inspired by the many green roofs he saw from his studio window while working in Germany. The exhibition, called Takeover, features art seeking to "utilize, incorporate, correspond or disrupt a particular space" of the new building, according to the Center. (Hey, they can disrupt my asphalt-shingled roof anytime.) Takeover runs until June 11.

Where would you want to be living if the price of gas shot up to $5, $6, even $8 a gallon as a result of a terrorist attack on energy supplies or a massive hurricane that wiped out gulf coast refineries? Not Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Houston, Texas, or other unsustainably designed cities, according to a report by the environmental website, SustainLane.com. The study evaluated the top ten cities in the country to live in the event of an oil shock, judging them according to their public transportation systems, access to wireless networks for telecommuting, low level of sprawl, and the availability of locally grown organic produce.