July 12, 2023
Is car-free Mackinac Island an urbanist paradise, or just a replica of one?
Mackinac Island is a tourist destination famous for fudge, horse-drawn carriages and prohibiting cars. But is it also a model...
mobility
January 24, 2018
PODCAST: Detroit missed out on Amazon HQ2. What does that tell us?
I last wrote here about why it’s perfectly OK that Amazon didn’t pick the Detroit-Windsor bid for its list of...
June 19, 2017
Car-free pedestrian plazas suddenly all the rage in the Motor City
Detroit, for decades a monument to the hegemony of the automobile, is increasingly ceding road real estate to pedestrian uses,...
December 8, 2016
Detroit Bike Share launches in April. Here’s how it’s shaping up
Detroit’s bike share system is on track to launch in April under a yet-to-be-determined name, with various membership and payment...
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