Madame Butterfly at the Michigan Opera
Review of a performance currently playing at the Detroit Opera.
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Events
Musings from Up North: Are Planners Pragmatic Dreamers? Or Just Jaded Bureaucrats?
Michigan has a ton of professional talent. It’s also got a lot of planners who are stuck in the passenger seat in a vehicle driving 85mph in the left lane, headed toward Sprawl City. Can we fix the worst politics of the profession and still keep our jobs? Or, is it simply incumbent upon us to figure out better, more sustainable solutions wherever we can?
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Better Cities Film Festival and YIMBY in Detroit
YIMBY enthusiasts from Columbus, North Carolina, California, Flint, and beyond converged on Detroit yesterday evening to see a new film featuring M. Nolan Gray, Research Director of California YIMBY.
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Planning Conference Day 2: Downtown Traverse, Renewable Energy
The second day of the annual conference of the Michigan Association of Planning involved a great tour, a lot of learning, and some serious head-scratching about how little attention is being paid to topics of decarbonization and climate change.
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Day 1 of the Michigan Planning Conference
A trip to Traverse City is the cherry on top of a year filled with exciting developments in planning world.
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Making Environmental and Climate Justice Visible: POCACITO Returns!
I am looking forward to again working with the inimitable Max Gruenig to help put together a conference at the
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Eastern Market After Dark, A Perennial Favorite
It’s always nice to remember that our city has vibrant spaces of retail, cultural production, and social exchange, that aren’t just parking lots.
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Automate: The Day The Robots Took Over
It was a robot party at Huntington Place last week. I got to see a lot of machines showing off.
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Detroit, The World’s Racetrack: My First Time At The Belle Isle Grand Prix
At the Grand Prix, presented by [Car Company] on Belle Isle, we enjoyed pulled pork nachos, sunshine, and a haze of particulate emissions.
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2020’s apt description as a dumpster fire has manifested itself in, well, a literal dumpster fire, which Nat will be manning for a few days.
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