Blueprint for Value: Why Companies Need City Planners on Their Payroll
Why more companies should be thinking about adding more diverse vocations to their talent base, and how this drives value creation.
Read MoreWhy more companies should be thinking about adding more diverse vocations to their talent base, and how this drives value creation.
Read MoreThe latest Ilitch demolition has us all scratching our heads and wondering when we will deserve a better city– for buildings, for historic preservation, and, of course, for Detroiters.
Read MoreA months-long saga to try and clean up a lot being used for long-term storage of inoperable vehicles finally gets a response from a persnickety FOIA coordinator, who points out that, well, we don’t care about the problems here, because it’s not a residential neighborhood.
Read MoreDetroit’s Department of Public Works spends a lot of time repaving streets. It doesn’t spend much time thinking about what might make those streets safer.
Read MoreLarge employers like hospitals, universities, and big corporations often contract with private transit operators to ferry their employees around, usually between parking lots and office buildings or other facilities. Would there be a resulting economy of scale if these services were consolidated into, say, the transit operations of a public agency?
Read MoreIn June, I attended Electric Forest, a several-days-long marathon of electronic music in northwest Michigan. While I’d attach some caveats
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Read MoreThe governor wants to figure out a strategy to grow the state. It’s going to have to start with investing in things that matter to real people, rather than things that matter to quarterly earnings reports for automakers. But it’s not that gloomy. There’s plenty of opportunity to think about how to do this.
Read MoreGreg Mangan, real estate advocate for the Southwest Detroit Business Association, picks me up at the northwest corner of West
Read MoreFahrkarte, bitte! We’re going on a lingusitic-infrastructural journey to learn about how infrastructure thinking is baked into the very language we use to describe it.
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