urban planning

Depending on your viewpoint, a pair of bills being proposed by the Michigan House and Senate are either a threat to historic districts in Michigan, or a…

The first federally-funded housing projects for African-American families were built in Detroit in the 1930s. They were the Brewster-Douglass Housing…

Today on Stateside, we’re getting the inside scoop from former residents of the Brewster-Douglass housing projects about what it was like growing up in…

One way to prevent accidents might come from redesigning road signs. University of Michigan marketing professor Aradhna Krishna, and postdoctoral scholar…

Metro Detroit has any number of problems, but finding affordable housing isn’t one of them.In fact—by one measure at least—the region offers some of the…

The University of Oklahoma's Institute for Quality Communities looks at Detroit from above in 1951 vs. Detroit in 2010.Over that 60 year span, a lot…

When Michael Imperiale moved to Michigan from Brooklyn, New York, he noticed the mile road system and wanted to know what it was all about. "I've asked…

To those of us who have seen those decaying buildings along I-375 near downtown Detroit, it’s pretty difficult to realize that the Brewster-Douglass…

The Michigan Municipal League is supporting eight communities with development projects. Those projects are part of the PlacePlan program.It's a…

The Flint city council will get its first official look at the city’s proposed master plan Monday.It’s been more than a half century since Flint leaders…