Billionaire Owner of Losing Sports Team Wants More Handouts
Yesterday, the Detroit City Council deferred a vote to lavish public subsidies on a new project of the healthcare industrial
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surface parking
Exploring the New Washington, DC: Edge Urbanism in Edgewood/Brookland
Walking, biking, scootering around northeast DC for a couple of weeks, thinking about the past, present, and future of the neighborhood.
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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.
Read MoreDetroit Park City No. 4 – Corktown and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Low Density
As Detroit’s hottest neighborhood, at least according to Buzzfeed, Corktown has to live up to a high standard. It’s got
Read MoreDetroit Park City #3: Dog Walks In Morounville
The other day (awhile ago, sorry about the delay), I deviated from my morning routine and took the hound down
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 MoreSaturday Night Parking Fever
En route to the Green Task Force meeting at Walker-Miller Energy Services in New Center, I stopped at 550 W.
Read MoreDetroit Park City, No. 2: West Larned (2/52)
Any effort to address the Motor City’s glut of surface parking might well start, ironically, downtown. At the risk of
Read MoreDetroit Park City, No. 1: Mexican Village (1/52)
In my last post I introduced Detroit Park City, a planning research project focusing on the positive potential of converting
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