Tour Ford’s New Michigan Central Project With Matterport
Ford’s Michigan Central Station is finally finished. It opens to the public on June 6th, 2024, but since tickets are sold out, you can still take a virtual tour here.
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Suffering For Sweetness: Why Arkansas Strawberries Are So Good
“The wine is no good, because the grapes haven’t suffered!” Is this just pedantry, or is there some biochemical truth in this statement?
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Semantics & Semitics: Why We Need Better Language To Discuss Israel.
The war in Gaza has been punctuated by atrocity after atrocity, but also by language on both sides of the conflict that attempts to delegitimize the other side, questioning the validity of an entire people to exist. Often, these attempts are rooted in intellectual misappropriations or misunderstandings of historical phrases or concepts.
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Detroit Doesn’t Explicitly Prohibit Parking In Bike Lanes. That’s Weird.
Laws and ordinances are important methods of signaling cultural values embodied by the State. In Michigan’s case, a relatively weak enforcement mechanism around bike lane protections and poor municipal ordinances on the subject seem suspect.
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A Spreadsheet Of All Of The Movement Acts This Weekend.
Electronic music is one of the only things that is almost as quintessentially Detroit as an American-made car. Fortunately, whether or not you’re going to the Movement festival, there is plenty going on this weekend.
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In The Fight Against Highway Widening, Advocacy Works.
Advocates, volunteers, and municipal officials came together to unanimously push back on a proposal by the Michigan Department of Transportation to widen a section of US-23 between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. The agency finally backed down and says it is exploring alternatives that do not involve widening the roadway. Success.
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How Modular Construction Can Help Fix The Housing Market
Industrialized and modular construction have a lot of potential to help fix the housing market. The value proposition is pretty simple. Realizing it, however, is a much heavier lift.
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If Grand Rapids Can Pass Zoning Reform, Anyone Can Do It.
Grand Rapids, the clean-cut, straight-laced, kinda conservative cousin of Detroit from farm country, just passed a groundbreaking zoning reform package. Will Detroit follow suit?
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Happy Birthday, QLINE. It’s Time For An Extension.
Detroit’s QLINE deserves an extension for its seventh birthday, writes Patrick Maynard in this guest editorial, making comparisons to Vienna, whose own subway system is relatively young.
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Austin, Continued – From Downtown to Esperanza
Downtown Austin offered a glimpse at the gleaming towers of corporate glory, while on the far eastern reaches of the city, a site once operated by TxDOT now hosts an emergency shelter that has been creatively redeveloped by a diverse and entrepreneurial team of practitioners.
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