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Urban Planning Parking 

Detroit Park City No. 5 – Crossing The Post Office Desert of West Fort Street

December 16, 2019December 17, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments wayne county community college, parking, jefferson avenue, riverfront, USPS, Detroit, detroit park city, Detroit riverfront, detroit street grid, fort street

One of the interesting things about Detroit’s built environment is the hub-and-spoke street layout. There are multiple, conflicting street grids,

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Urban Planning Historic preservation Parking 

Saturday Night Parking Fever

October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments michigan, Mike Ilitch, olympia development, parking, surface parking, ilitch, green task force, detroit saturday night building, coleman young, demolition, Detroit, fort street, francis grunow, detroiters for parking reform, emmett moten

En route to the Green Task Force meeting at Walker-Miller Energy Services in New Center, I stopped at 550 W.

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Real Estate Urban Planning Cities & Urban Planning Parking Housing 

Detroit Park City, No. 2: West Larned (2/52)

August 14, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments parking, high-rise, surface parking, underground parking, Corrado Parducci, Density, Detroit, detroit park city, Development, downtown

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

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Cities & Urban Planning Parking 

Detroit Park City, No. 1: Mexican Village (1/52)

July 11, 2017July 11, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments mexican village detroit, mixed-use, parking, parking lots, real estate, surface parking, housing, Density, detroit park city, Development

In my last post I introduced Detroit Park City, a planning research project focusing on the positive potential of converting

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Cities & Urban Planning 

Detroit Park City: Unlearning the Motor City’s Parking Culture

June 8, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments jeff speck, parking, parking garages, parking minimums, Urban planning, Density, free parking, donald shoup

At a recent MDOT planning meeting hosted at the illustrious Shed 5 in Detroit’s Eastern Market, I again found myself thinking,

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