Sunday, December 21, 2025

Dispatches from the Rust Belt

Cities & Urban Planning

O’Hare Loses Out On Coveted “Busiest Airport” Title

Colleagues who attended SISE 2014 will remember when David Robbins of the Chicago Department of Aviation presented on the massive

On Sunday I attended Open Streets Detroit, possibly the Motor City’s first-ever effort at creating a contained version of an

While managing the Detroit Land Bank housing development programs at Southwest, I’ve come across a number of scenarios in which a

I am pleased to announce that I have been selected to attend the Ecologic Institute’s Post-Carbon Cities of Tomorrow (POCACITO)

Growing up on the east coast, I was initially bemused upon hearing the frequent grumbling by Midwesterners about Amtrak when I

In a scenario worthy of the Duma or a small, post-colonial African republic, newly reëlected East Chicago city councilman Robert

Detroit has a reputation of being pretty weak on public transit, and it’s not undeserved. Southeast Michigan in general is,

“We often hear about how it’s great to get like-minded people together in the same place,” one USGBC-DRC member

Today we salute the State Line Generating Plant, in Hammond, Indiana, whose ongoing demolition removes a major landmark from the

In a few short hours, I am going to be attending a holiday party, a joint event put on by