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Usually living in the central part of a decentralized region makes more sense, as you are central to more jobs. So living in downtown Detroit would put you equal distance to more jobs, than say...

The entire school issue has little to do with funding and more to do with family.
The reason DPS schools perform so badly is because the majority of kids come from broken families with little love...

I think it is disgusting how cities, suburbs, and towns in the United States debate about something like education, and who is better, and wanting to keep people who not as privileged as them out.
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What I find interesting is so many people can't drive when you go out, because they have to drive. So it becomes mostly water or coke :)
So no one got drunk.

I was reading this book about...

I think it is interesting to hear people complain about 30 minute commutes or one hour round trip commutes.
Many of you also want public transit. However you do know that your commutes are almost...

I just got back in from three days in Detroit, to attend a family function. My sister finally was able to come to Detroit, and insisted that we go sightseeing. To our surprise, our parents decided to...

Hey everyone,
I am going to be in Detroit on this weekend for a family event, including Thursday and Friday Aug 18-19. Anyway my sister who has never been wants me to take her around Detroit on the...

It is interesting the different ways people associate with where they live.

I guess a metro government would have tied people together more.
I know growing up here in a suburb of Toronto, we...

The problem with the expensive stores in the RenCen in the 70's was that like Tower City in Cleveland, they thought high end retail would draw people downtown and save downtown.
Just like Tower...

I remember going to visit my friend last year in Chicago and the border guard asked where my friend lived, and I said Chicago. And she was like "no no what suburb does he live in". And I said "he...

I hope Detroit continues to put a focus on local unique stores. The chains while also needed in a big city downtown, should not be the only option, as it is local stores that really have a vested...

I bet the % of Livonia residents who use the library is not that high either. And on top of that, you can't use a 2% figure to say transit is not important.

I bet only something like 0.5% of...

Its still interesting.

Because I remember dealing with tourists on a daily basis at one of my old jobs.

And say I got someone from Metro Buffalo, they would just say "from Buffalo". I would...

I don't think the reason for Jman voting against SMART service in Livonia is the right reason at all.

No offense to you jman, but would you vote to cancel Library service, because you don't use...

We had some of our family from Detroit come up to Toronto this weekend for a little family get together.

Instead of just having the family dinner, we decided to have a little tour of Toronto...

It is not like I was scared. I have been to that area a number of times. I was just wondering as I have never seen security guards at a church parking lot before.

I just back from a wedding in Detroit, and my cousin had the wedding at a church on Gratiot just north of McNichols.

I have always heard that this area is one of the worst in the city? Is this...

One thing I find very cool and interesting about these old theatres, are that they were for the most part located at the bottom of office buildings. Talk about mixed use.

People often say we...

Gistok I did not know that about the UA Theatre. I hope it gets added. There was lots of work being on on that building when we walked past it.

We just asked the security guard in the lobby and we were allowed 5 minutes in the parking area. I was in there before for the theatre tour. But I wanted my planning friends to see it.

Is the...

It was found that city income tax was the reason 50% of residents who leave Philly for the suburbs each year chose to leave.

There is always this talk that metropolitan regions need a healthy core city, or overtime the metro region will go the way of the declining inner city.

However do any of you really think that is...

I lead an urban planning tour of Detroit yesterday for some of my fellor planning classmates.
And one overriding theme I kept catching myself saying was "10 years ago this place was vacant, etc". ...

Does anyone know if the Michigan Theatre Parking deck in the old theatre is open to the public, or only to like monthly parking pass holders, etc?

Over 90,000 people are in downtown Detroit each workday. Capture on that market to start off a retail renaissance.
More people are in downtown Detroit each day than anywhere else in Michigan....