City depopulation and its impacts, and the policies that could soften the negative effects of city decline, will be the focus of an academic symposium titled “Rescuing Low Performing Cities: Policies to Deal with Cities that Empty Out” hosted by the Michigan Higher Education Land Policy (MIHELP) Consortium on Monday, November 17, at Wayne State […]

If you missed the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 last week, you missed quite an event!  But you still learn some of the great ideas shared and discussed.  Check out: The Michigan Municipal League’s Creative Cities blog Model D’s article Smart Ideas for Detroit from the Creative Cities Summit The Creative Cities Summit website, with a

If you haven’t yet seen it yet, you can now see the proposed regional transit plan online, via the SEMCOG website. You can also submit comments, but make sure to get them in by next Friday, October 24.  Here’s a glimpse of the proposed rapid transit corridors:     

Transit certainly is a hot topic these days!  Model D has been doing an interesting speaker series about topics important to Detroit.  The next topic?  You guessed it – new ways for Detroiters to get around. John Hertel is the local transit czar, and will speak on the the Regional Transportation Coordinating Council’s recently released

Congress has given final approval to a bill that could nearly double Amtrak’s annual funding, which in recent years has been just over $1 billion, and that would require new safety equipment on rail lines around the country to prevent collisions like the one that killed 25 people last month in Los Angeles. The bill