Detroit Park City No. 7 – Lafayette & Cass
There’s a funny little corner parking lot in downtown Detroit at the corner of Cass & Lafayette. The lot is
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The Billion Dollar Hot-And-Ready: Touring Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena
Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena is impressive. Whether it’s a masterpiece of sustainability of community development, on the other hand, is up for debate.
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Detroit Park City No. 6 – Eastern Parket District
Eastern Market is home to about 1400 city-owned off-street parking spaces, representing a massive public subsidy for the motorcar.
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Detroit Park City No. 5 – Crossing The Post Office Desert of West Fort Street
One of the interesting things about Detroit’s built environment is the hub-and-spoke street layout. There are multiple, conflicting street grids,
Read moreDetroit Park City No. 4 – Corktown and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Low Density
As Detroit’s hottest neighborhood, at least according to Buzzfeed, Corktown has to live up to a high standard. It’s got
Read moreMaking Detroit Great Again– Through More Surface Parking
Well, this is awful. Today, developer Emmett Moten began demolition of the Detroit Saturday Night Building. This will give him
Read moreSaturday Night Parking Fever
En route to the Green Task Force meeting at Walker-Miller Energy Services in New Center, I stopped at 550 W.
Read moreThe Somewhat Unsurprising Struggle of Detroit’s Streetcar
Figures out this week show that Detroit’s QLINE streetcar, once heralded as a bringer of progress to our struggling city,
Read moreDetroit Park City, No. 2: West Larned (2/52)
Any effort to address the Motor City’s glut of surface parking might well start, ironically, downtown. At the risk of
Read moreDetroit Park City, No. 1: Mexican Village (1/52)
In my last post I introduced Detroit Park City, a planning research project focusing on the positive potential of converting
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