A 40-Year Transformation for Detroit's RiverWalk
Since the mid-1970s, Detroit’s riverfront has been transforming from a depressed industrial area into a bustling district for families and businesses.
John Gallagher and Zlati Meyer report on the success of RiverWalk, after forty years in the works:
"Planners say the riverfront eventually will offer economic as well as recreational opportunities. As the housing market recovers, city officials and developers look forward to the construction of hundreds or even thousands of upscale condos and rental apartments and retail stores, investments that could total in the hundreds of millions of dollars."
The job is clearly not complete: Gallagher and Meyer found gaps on the RiverWalk that still need to be filled, include stalled plans for condos, apartments, and retail spaces and parks that need to be rebuilt.
Full Story:
Published on Sunday, June 24, 2012 in
- Austin, Texas Shows the Way to Plan and Design Transit Oriented Development
- The Sweet Smell of Density? Subconscious Influences on Perceptions of Urban Form
- $1.5 Billion in BUILD Grants Announced
- Where Campus Planning Meets Urban Planning
- All of L.A.'s Rail Lines Will Get New Names
- Thumbs Down to Planning Rules of Thumb
- Trump Administration Gives 'Opportunity Zones' a Push Forward
- Putting a Bow on Top of the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
- The Future of the Retail Landscape
- Songs About Places - 2018
- Proposed Law Would Empower Section 8 Voucher Users
- San Diego Water Recycling Project Receives Critical EPA Loan
- Oregon to Consider Statewide Ban of SIngle-Family Zoning
- Downtown St. Paul Loop Back in the Gold Line BRT Plan
- EU Commission 'License to Pollute' overturned by top European court
- Friday Eye Candy: A Cartoon Explains the State of U.S. Public Transit
- Athens Fights Rising Temperatures
- $7.5 Billion Regional Transit Plan Revealed in Houston
- Carbon Pricing Strategies Under Consideration in Seven States
- EPA and Army Corps of Engineers Propose Revision of Wetlands Definition
