Michigan
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.
Real Cost Of Michigan's School Construction Boom
A new report offers a detailed assessment of how school construction decisions are made in Michigan, and their effect on development patterns.
If You Build It They Really Will Come
New roads bring new development, not faster commutes, to Oakland County Michigan
Detroit Looks To Youth To Rebuild For The Future
Detroit's City Council creates a young adult task force.
People And Pavement
Context-sensitive design works in Michigan.
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
