Mapping The Strait

“If you seek a plenty of parking, look about you.”  While Michigan is home to 14,037,931 off-street parking spaces, well more than 5,000 ...

In this first part of a series of pieces about Detroit’s evolving land use plans, I want to weigh in on the issue of population density.  Is...

Payday lenders – or “deferred presentment service providers,” as they call themselves – are painfully pervasive in the city.  While 15 state...

Despite the successes of many of Detroit’s grocery stores, dozens of researchers, journalists and bloggers have helped brand Detroit a “food...

Forty-five years ago, bowling was a major part of Detroit life.  In 1966, residents were so taken by the game that the City Council passed a...

Last week, the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine urged Mayor Bing to place a moratorium on new fast food restaurants in the...

I n honor of Metro Detroit’s ongoing transit-planning process , this is the first post in a series looking at previous transit planning effo...