Tour Ford’s New Michigan Central Project With Matterport
Ford’s Michigan Central Station is finally finished. It opens to the public on June 6th, 2024, but since tickets are sold out, you can still take a virtual tour here.
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Cities & Urban Planning
Detroit Doesn’t Explicitly Prohibit Parking In Bike Lanes. That’s Weird.
Laws and ordinances are important methods of signaling cultural values embodied by the State. In Michigan’s case, a relatively weak enforcement mechanism around bike lane protections and poor municipal ordinances on the subject seem suspect.
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How Modular Construction Can Help Fix The Housing Market
Industrialized and modular construction have a lot of potential to help fix the housing market. The value proposition is pretty simple. Realizing it, however, is a much heavier lift.
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If Grand Rapids Can Pass Zoning Reform, Anyone Can Do It.
Grand Rapids, the clean-cut, straight-laced, kinda conservative cousin of Detroit from farm country, just passed a groundbreaking zoning reform package. Will Detroit follow suit?
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Happy Birthday, QLINE. It’s Time For An Extension.
Detroit’s QLINE deserves an extension for its seventh birthday, writes Patrick Maynard in this guest editorial, making comparisons to Vienna, whose own subway system is relatively young.
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Austin, Continued – From Downtown to Esperanza
Downtown Austin offered a glimpse at the gleaming towers of corporate glory, while on the far eastern reaches of the city, a site once operated by TxDOT now hosts an emergency shelter that has been creatively redeveloped by a diverse and entrepreneurial team of practitioners.
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NPC24: Yes We Plan, Minneapolis-St. Paul!
Nat returns to the Land of the Rising Passive Aggression to log some CEUs and talk about housing innovation.
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YIMBY Meetup in April!
On April 4th, The Handbuilt City and ADL Ventures will host an event at Batch Brewing Company in Detroit to talk about how we can unlock housing opportunity using industrialized construction and regulatory innovation.
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Everything’s Bigger In Texas, Including The YIMBY Movement
Keep Austin weird? Or, “keep Austin’s built environment thoroughly eclectic and its infrastructure slightly dysfunctional”? Lessons from the first YIMBYTown conference in the Lone Star State.
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Billionaire Owner of Losing Sports Team Wants More Handouts
Yesterday, the Detroit City Council deferred a vote to lavish public subsidies on a new project of the healthcare industrial
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