Michigan
Michigan
In Grand Rapids, smart investments spur Smart Growth.
Smart Growth Governor Revamps Game Plan
Michigan's Jennifer Granholm thinking bigger, playing tougher
College Town Redux
East Lansing works to reinvent itself with a balance of students and young families.
A Tragic Loss To The Planning Community
Innovative planning professor Gill-Chin Lim died as a result of injuries sustained in a traffic accident.
Students Compete In Cool City Contest
Planning schools from around the country take part in a design competition.
Detroit's Fiscal Crisis
A decline in population drives Motor City into a financial crises.
Follow The Money
New research by the Michigan Land Use Institute documents for the first time a pervasive pattern of public investment that is encouraging runaway sprawl in Michigan.
Congress Could Put More Local Food Into Schools
Bipartisan flavor works in program’s favor
Land Bank Goes To Work On Flint
County uses new state laws to redevelop abandoned properties
Shopkeepers Are Antidote To Big Boxes
Spending at neighbors’ stores changes the world.
Detroit's Demolition Debate
Is demolition the best solution for urban blight?
A Bumblebee For Walking
Dan Burden is changing the way towns think about traffic.
Oceangoing Ship Ban Explored
The Great Lakes ecosystem is in chaos. The solution, say policymakers and scientists: ban all oceangoing cargo ships.
Economic Development, Fresh Food, and Charity
A new program provide better nutrition and increases profits for farms.
Michigan Legislature OKs Affordable Housing Fund
Program to boost home ownership also helps cities.
Sensitivity Training
Transportation officials, citizens polishing new people-and-pavement policies
Fastest Growing Counties Deliver Bush And New Development Strategy
Ninety-seven of the nation's 100 fastest growing counties supported George W. Bush and delivered half of the president's 3.5 million-vote victory margin.
Michigan Cities' Four-Point Urban Agenda
Detroit's Kilpatrick and Grand Rapids' Heartwell partner for urban progress.
College Students Design Town Plan For $25k Prize
Jackson, Michigan opens a contest for college students to create a vision for the downtown's west end.
420 Million: America
Smart Growth can cut congestion, pollution, in emerging ‘supercities’
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
