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Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

Dreams of Better Transit Signage. How Legible Is Your City?

June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments advocacy, bus, bus routes, buses, calley wang, camillo sitte, citycraft, dan gilbert, dan gilbert industrial complex, DDOT, detroit department of transportation, jane jacobs, legibility, LRT, martha connell, motor city freedom riders, QLINE, richard sennett, ridership, robert moses, statecraft, transit, transit corridors, transit infrastructure, transit signage, transportation riders united, TRU, urban design, Urban planning

Transit advocacy should necessarily focus on making sure transit systems can be easily accessed. In many cases, that begins with signs to show people where to go.

Real Estate Urban Planning Mobility Housing

Greenways, The Ultimate High-Density Corridor Development Tool?

May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments active living, adaptive reuse, affordable housing, AMI, bde maka ska, corridor, corridor development, cycling infrastructure, Density, density bonus, Detroit, displacement, Gentrification, high-density development, housing, housing development, inclusionary zoning, industrial corridors, industrial redevelopment, joe louis greenway, lake calhoun, lake harriet, low-density, luxury rentals, market rate rentals, mid-density, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minneapolis midtown greenway, mixed-income, mixed-use, new construction, nonmotorized infrastructure, nonmotorized transportation, pedestrian infrastructure, real estate, real estate development, recreation, rental housing, safe streets, the out-of-doors, transit corridors, YIMBY

Nat compares the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis to the Joe Louis Greenway in Detroit, which broke ground this past week.

Public transit Cities & Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

Should We Give Up on The QLINE?

May 13, 2021May 13, 2021 Martha Connell 0 Comments cavsdan, corridor, dan gilbert, dan gilbert industrial complex, foxtown, multimodal, public-private partnership, QLINE detroit, quicken, Quicken Loans, quicken's, rock companies, Streetcars, sugar danny, transit, transit corridor, transit corridors, woodward, woodward corridor

As life has changed dramatically for many over the past year, the workers of Detroit have continued to rely upon

Business & Economics Urban Planning Public transit

Challenging The Automotive Paradigm in Reagan Democrat Country

December 3, 2019December 3, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments 8 mile, ballot initiative, classism, gratiot, leon drolet, macomb county, mark hackel, mass transit, property tax, public transit, racism, regional transit, regional transit authority, RTA, SEMCOG, SMART, transit, transit corridors, transit millage, xenophobia

I found out the other night that there are people in Macomb County who actually refer to the Gratiot FAST