Fall In Detroit!
Before the frost and the demise of all of the leaves, I managed to get out there and take a bunch of pictures of pretty things.
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Author: Nat M. Zorach
What To Do When The Client Says They Need More Parking
An uncomfortable situation in which the client wants to demolish buildings to add parking spaces. Let’s push back and say, “what about this other thing instead?”
Read MoreBook 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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