Greenways, The Ultimate High-Density Corridor Development Tool?
Nat compares the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis to the Joe Louis Greenway in Detroit, which broke ground this past week.
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Density
Awake, East Warren! Dreaming Mixed-Use in Detroit’s Farthest-Flung Corridor
A new, mid-density development project on Detroit’s far east side is materializing, heralding a new dawn for a corridor that has struggled with autocentric, low density and disinvestment for decades.
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Detroit Fairgrounds Site: Alternatives to Permanent, Monumentally Bad Decisions
The State Fairgrounds site is centrally located, and it’s huge. Too huge to make some monumentally bad decisions about permanently turning it into a Shelby Township-style strip mall.
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Tour of Ford’s Michigan Central Station Project
Michigan Central Station, the iconic, hulking, centenarian structure that has sat vacant for decades, is perhaps the flagship redevelopment project
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Travel Writing: Density, Mobility, and Dreams of a Better New York
I spent the long MLK weekend in New York City for some family visits, friend visits, professional prospecting, and some
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Alleys: The Back Road To Sustainable Development
Alleys, an oft-forgotten component of the urban fabric, have transformative potential for infrastructure and real estate.
Read MoreOnly In New York: Capital Mistakes in Density
New York’s current craze of demolishing usable buildings and replacing them with slightly denser ones is unsustainable and bad for business.
Read MoreMaking Detroit Great Again– Through More Surface Parking
Well, this is awful. Today, developer Emmett Moten began demolition of the Detroit Saturday Night Building. This will give him
Read MoreSorry, Tim– Pocket Change Can’t Fix Suburbia.
Apple just announced that it’s committing a bunch of money to housing development in the Bay Area. That’s good, right?!
Read MoreGreening Sprawl and The Limits of Incrementalism
Often, when I get excited about a discussion about sustainable urbanism or green building, the projects in question turn out
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