Michigan
Sprawl Hurts Persons With Disabilities
Urban sprawl negatively impacts the lives of persons with disabilities.
Density And The Downtown
An interview with Doug Kelbaugh, dean of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Wal-Mart's Low Prices Are No Bargain
Charlevoix group may hold edge in struggle with world’s largest retailer.
Detroit Can't Hear The Music
Detroit's musical heritage ignored as a tourism attraction strategy.
Tuning Up Detroit With The Motor City Makeover
Mayor leads citizen effort to clean up the city.
Taking What They Can When They Can
Car dealers mark up interest rates to make an extra buck. Studies show minorities are charged higher markups.
The Sound Of Diversity
City permits loudspeakers to broadcast Islamic call to prayer five times daily.
Tax Limitation Amendments Have Unintended Consequences
Small municipalities need tax revenues generated by additions, people move rather than building on and staying
Boom And Bust
Leapfrogging suburbs make life difficult for public schools.
New Route To Transportation Design
Michigan prepares to harmonize highway, transit plans with community character
Big City Schools, Big City Challenges
Grand Rapids, Detroit compete with big, new suburban schools
Granholm Promotes People-Friendly Road Design
Governor's "context-sensitive" approach could resolve old highway battles.
Making Inner-Ring Suburbs Redevelopment-Ready
Michigan Suburbs Alliance creating standards to certify inner-ring suburbs as redevelopment-ready.
The Mall Before The Sprawl
A 50th birthday retrospective of a mall that started it all and the sprawl that followed.
From Skid Row To Hip City
Artists’ housing project anticipates Granholm’s “Cool Cities” initiative
Outward Bound
Poor zoning helps push schools out of town in Michigan
Services In The Suburbs Get Funky
Ann Arbor bus system to go out-county to get workers.
Unintended Consequences Of Sprawl
As formerly somewhat rural areas gain residents, more "urban" services are required.
Small Town Fighting Teardown-McMansion Trend
Maintaining character means maintaining desirability.
In The Land Of The Car, It Doesn't Pay To Oppose Freeways
Community is cut off from Main Street program after opposing a freeway widening plan.
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 Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
