Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Michigan

The Cato Institute’s resident transportation pundit Randal O’Toole is best appreciated as a comedian. A forestry expert with a penchant for 19th Century neckwear, O’Toole’s latest gag, published in The Michigan View, warns that Detroit is poised to repeat the transportation mistakes of — get this — Portland and Denver. Let that sink in for […]

There’s no consensus in the urban planning profession — or in public opinion more generally — about how to handle declining cities like Detroit. All sorts of solutions have been proposed, ranging from the outlandish (making Detroit a “skyscraper ruins park“) to the more widely accepted (converting vacant land into urban agriculture). But lately Michigan […]