What To Do When The Client Says They Need More Parking
An uncomfortable situation in which the client wants to demolish buildings to add parking spaces. Let’s push back and say, “what about this other thing instead?”
Read MoreAn uncomfortable situation in which the client wants to demolish buildings to add parking spaces. Let’s push back and say, “what about this other thing instead?”
Read MoreWe can build cities for people, or we can build them for cars. Eliminating parking minimums, which require that off-street parking spaces be included in every development project, is a great way to move us toward the former after decades of moving toward the latter.
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 MoreThe Blue Oval scores another kind of big, fat, blue oval, rotated 90°, for its commitment to walkability and bikeability in the new Michigan Central Station project.
Read MoreThe city of Ann Arbor officially abolished parking minimums yesterday with the passage of an amendment to the city’s development
Read MoreThere’s a funny little corner parking lot in downtown Detroit at the corner of Cass & Lafayette. The lot is
Read MoreDetroit’s Little Caesars Arena is impressive. Whether it’s a masterpiece of sustainability of community development, on the other hand, is up for debate.
Read MoreEastern Market is home to about 1400 city-owned off-street parking spaces, representing a massive public subsidy for the motorcar.
Read MoreOne of the interesting things about Detroit’s built environment is the hub-and-spoke street layout. There are multiple, conflicting street grids,
Read MoreAs Detroit’s hottest neighborhood, at least according to Buzzfeed, Corktown has to live up to a high standard. It’s got
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