The Handbuilt City

Activist Investing in the Era of Mass Murder

I don’t usually write about gun control, but in this case I’ve found the nationwide response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I’ve made it my mission to read all of the Detroit books. I started with Charlie LeDuff’s sensationalist Detroit: An

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

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