Book Review: The Code of Capital, by Katharina Pistor
A professor of law at Columbia University looks at the regulatory and legal frameworks that companies use to protect and aggrandize power, wealth, and intellectual property.
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POCACITO Transatlantic Forum on Climate and Environmental Justice
New friends, old friends, and comrades, generally, in this most righteous struggle for climate and environmental justice, met up last week at the POCACITO Transatlantic Forum in Washington, DC.
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People Deserve Beautiful Things
The SDBA program introduced an interesting discussion about design standards in renovation. It happens to be something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about.
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The Death of Samantha Woll
The horrific murder of a prominent member of the Detroit Jewish community has left all of us completely shocked.
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Why Parking Minimums Are Bad.
We can build cities for people, or we can build them for cars. Eliminating parking minimums, which require that off-street parking spaces be included in every development project, is a great way to move us toward the former after decades of moving toward the latter.
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Hubbard Farms Gets Serious About Density
Far from the haunted basements of my own portfolio with SDBA, Southwest Detroit is rocking a few new real estate development projects these days, including one that local residents should know about.
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Asafoetida, That Most Revered, Elusive Culinary Stank
Sometimes, the spices you can buy on the shelves at Trader Joe’s just aren’t cutting it and you need something stronger, darker. Danker.
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Madame Butterfly at the Michigan Opera
Review of a performance currently playing at the Detroit Opera.
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Musings from Up North: Are Planners Pragmatic Dreamers? Or Just Jaded Bureaucrats?
Michigan has a ton of professional talent. It’s also got a lot of planners who are stuck in the passenger seat in a vehicle driving 85mph in the left lane, headed toward Sprawl City. Can we fix the worst politics of the profession and still keep our jobs? Or, is it simply incumbent upon us to figure out better, more sustainable solutions wherever we can?
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Water: New Orleans’ Next Environmental Catastrophe.
Hardly a week goes by these days without some sort of disastrous news about climate change, whether domestic or abroad,
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