Sunday, September 28, 2025

Dispatches from the Rust Belt

Urban Planning

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,

A train derailment yesterday morning in Southwest Detroit knocked down a power line, leaving about a thousand residential and commercial

As Detroit’s hottest neighborhood, at least according to Buzzfeed, Corktown has to live up to a high standard. It’s got

This morning I attended “Driving Our AV Future,” an event produced by the Michigan Mobility Institute (MMI) and the Partnership for

I’m moving into the end of the year with an announcement about some exciting upcoming goings-on. RTA 2020: The Business

I found out the other night that there are people in Macomb County who actually refer to the Gratiot FAST

The other day (awhile ago, sorry about the delay), I deviated from my morning routine and took the hound down

The Ambassador Bridge, or, Moroun’s Folly, as I call her, is 90 years young today. We commemorate this iconic landmark–

I’ve had a persistent respiratory something or other for a solid two and a half weeks now. I’m a healthy

Mike Duggan’s latest proposal to “eliminate blight” includes a proposed $250 million bond issue to finance his ongoing demolition program,