The Morouns Tore Down A Warehouse For More Truck Parking. Really. [EDITED]
Walking from home to Corktown last night in search of food and drink with some out-of-town visitors who were eager
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“I Thought It Would Be Worse,” said a Detroit cop of a protest last year. “I Wanted More.”
CONTENT WARNING: The 22-minute video and the clips I’ve taken from it below include some disturbing and extremely graphic imagery,
Read MoreBurgerbanism: Telway Hamburgers, the Final Frontier of Southwest Detroit
Burgerbanism is an ongoing, however infrequent, series on restaurants and their architectural, economic, and social context in cities. A sticky
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“MDOT will be the ultimate decider on all roadway decisions.”
Not quite the Grand Prix yet and we’re already having issues. Can we protect Belle Isle from being clogged by car traffic?
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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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New Grand River Streetscaping: Safer, Slower, Greener
New streetscaping improvements have turned portions of Grand River Avenue, on Detroit’s West Side, from a street-level freeway into something more closely resembling a real city street that people might be able to safely hang out and shop on.
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Morning Coffee, Detroit Traffic: The Post-COVID Craze Is About To Be Wild
Yesterday, Detroit was a whole traffic jam, as an increasingly vaccinated cross-section of, well, everyone, emerged from the cocoons of Michigan winter and lockdowns.
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Webinar: Tech To Reduce Guesswork for Safer Streets
Traffic technology has improved by leaps and bounds in recent decades. While the ultimate solutions to ending traffic violence must come with better street designs and a reduced reliance on single-occupant automobiles, there are some interesting developments in technology that are allowing better modeling to understand driver behavior, intersection safety, and more. We learned about it from a webinar co-hosted by Canadian tech company Miovision.
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Police Reform: Imagining New Roles For A Safer, More Functional Society
We expect police to respond to, well, everything. And they’re not suited for it. Rethinking policing in the United States will require us to figure out alternatives for who is responding to what issue.
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Strava’s Heat Map Makes The Case For Safer Streets.
Dion Thompson-Davoli showed us his Strava Heat Map of Detroit. It’s exactly as you would expect– showing a gaping hole of activity in most of the city proper.
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