ACEEE Scorecard: Michigan is Behind The Times? Again!?
ACEEE scored 30 states based on a variety of metrics around electric vehicle adoption and electrification. Michigan is again behind the times.
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Cities & Urban Planning
Book Review – Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car
Can autonomous cars save us? Well, no, but they can provide some vital innovation to our society. Provided we play our cards right, that is. Anthony Townsend’s book gives us the lowdown.
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Save The Office: Costs And Spatial Well-Being in the Work-From-Home Economy
Working from home has its benefits, but not everyone wants to work from home. What degree of input should employers be soliciting from staff before deciding to permanently make the monumental work-from-home leap? What should we be thinking about as the economy retools to support work-from-home economy?
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What If We Can’t Wait? Public-Private Partnership Solutions for Infrastructure
The RTA is planning on returning in 2022– again- to revisit a ballot measure to fund regional infrastructure investment in Southeast Michigan. Can we wait for 2022? Should we explore alternatives in the meantime?
Read MoreShort Circuits: What’s Going On With GameStop Stock
GameStop stock blew up. Should you care? No, not really. But you shouldn’t buy it.
Read MoreRight of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
Angie Schmitt’s Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (2020) is a must-read
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Driven: The Race To Create the Autonomous Car, by Alex Davies
Weekend Read. This book, Driven: The Race To Create the Autonomous Car, is worth reading for anyone who is interested
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From Fantasy To Innovation: The Autonomous Car in Film History
Rudolf Zehetgruber’s 1971 West German film, “Ein Käfer geht aufs Ganze,” is a primitive example of autonomous cars in film, traveling off the beaten path made before it by the likes of Disney’s Herbie (1968).
Read MoreBook Review: The Firm – The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business (2014)
MCKINSEY. EVERY B-SCHOOL BRO KNOWS THE NAME. Many more Americans learned the name after facing the presidential prospects of a
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Why Is Detroit Giving Industrial Slumlords Like Moroun A Free Pass?
The owners of the Ambassador Bridge, their trucking empire, and a plethora of shell corporations own many acres of prime real estate close to Detroit’s downtown. Why have they avoided regulatory scrutiny?
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