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The Alley Project: Design Thinking in Practice

The Challenge Detroit “Impact Project” is an opportunity for fellows to scope and execute a project for a community partner in Detroit. This project is an individual version of the team challenge projects that happen throughout the year. Fellows approach each of the challenge projects through the design thinking process as defined by Stanford’s Design […]

Street Festivals

Crash Detroit  July 21 + 22
Crash Detroit  brings the power and joyous sounds of street bands to underused spaces of Detroit. This two-day festival includes a night of spontaneous music at local businesses, a full line up of performances, family activities and food trucks at Lincoln Street Art Park, and a ticketed showcase at Marble Bar.

Sidewalk […]

My Stoic Neighbor: The Book Tower

Last fall, I moved into an eighth floor apartment in downtown Detroit. The apartment is on Washington Boulevard, one of the major radial thoroughfares of Augustus Woodward’s plan for the city following the fire of 1805. My apartment doesn’t look onto the grand boulevard. It faces south, across Grand River Avenue, directly into the facade […]

Detroit’s Lessons for a Young Architect

These are a few of the ways Detroit has shaped my career in architecture.
Detroiter’s help each other
Before moving to Detroit, I thought networking was cheap wine and superficial conversation. In this city, progress is made in face to face connection. You have to be present in order to find people to work with. I’ve learned to […]

Blight: Detroit’s Natural Resource

Life of many of Detroit’s vacant buildings began over a hundred years ago when it was a booming auto capital. Once a city of nearly 2 million, there are many unoccupied buildings in Detroit. In taking in the visual landscape of Detroit, one of the first things one notices are the impressive amount and diversity […]

Development in Detroit, a win for Jane Jacobs?

What makes a place worth fighting for?

Last week, the documentary Jane Jacob: Battle for the City was screened at the Detroit FREEP Film Festival. The film brings Jane Jacobs’ epic battle for the city of New York against the “master builder” Robert Moses into modern context. The world has never been more urban with millions of people […]

Hamtramck – City within a city

In 2013, Hamtramck, Michigan made national headlines when it became the first majority-Muslim city in the United States. Surrounded by Detroit, Hamtramck is a city within a city. Historically, Hamtramck was a neighborhood of Polish immigrants who flocked to the city’s factories in the early 20th century. Compared to surrounding areas, Hamtramck has a high […]

Branding City

 

The 1970’s were a low point of New York City’s recent history. Crippled by high crime rates, low tourism, and the loss of a million in population to the suburbs, the city neared bankruptcy. There was widespread belief that New York City was in irreversible decline.

In 1977, the New York State Department of Commerce hired […]

Developing a Sports District

November 2016 was a big month for sports, capped at beginning and end with historic events. On November 2, the Cubs broke their 108 year drought by winning the 2016 World Series in an 8-7, 10- inning, Game 7 victory over the Indians. On November 22, Piston’s owner Tom Gores announced that the basketball team would […]

Art and Empathy in Detroit

The Detroit Institute of Arts is the anchor for a network of museums, schools, galleries, and institutions that create Detroit’s thriving art community. It is a place where one can experience the incredible power that art has to evoke empathy and cross cultural understanding. The DIA famously houses the largest example of Mexican mural art […]

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