The Handbuilt City

NO AMERICAN LAWYER WOULD EVER SIGN OFF ON THIS, I thought, as I grasped an iron railing, looking up into

Tschö, Detroit!

Today I’m headed off on a multi-modal transit odyssey that will eventually land me in the Ruhrgebiet, in Nordrhein-Westfalen, as

At the North End Christian CDC, outside a hoophouse in Detroit’s North End, Kimberly Hill-Knott recounted the origins of the

On Sunday, for the first and possibly the last time, I rode my bike across the Detroit River on the

The water cooler topic du jour in Detroit is the grumbling about why Amazon won’t move here because the region

On a last-minute weekend trip to Toronto with a friend, I accidentally happened upon the EDIT Festival. Billing itself as

This morning I attended a public hearing for a proposed city ordinance that would require any development project receiving public

Any effort to address the Motor City’s glut of surface parking might well start, ironically, downtown. At the risk of

This week, I am riding RAGBRAI, Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, after talking about doing it for the

President Donald Trump announced this week as Made in America week, showcasing and promoting domestic manufacturing. He played in a