Michigan
Michigan Legislature To Make Traffic Light Switcher Illegal
The Michigan legislature takes steps to outlaw a new dashboard device that makes certain traffic lights turn green.
Developers Belted In Ann Arbor
Voters easily pass an initiative to establish a greenbelt tax around the city.
Lights Out For Public Safety?
What legal responsibility do cities have to provide adequate public services, such as traffic signals and street lights?
Section 8 Failures in Detroit
A Detroit Free Press expose reveals the neglect of lead-based paint inspections in many properties that accept Section 8 vouchers, and the children who are paying for it.
Your Own Personal Traffic-Light Changer
A front page article in the Detroit News details the emerging problem with a device that is now available to the public -- a traffic light changer.
Home Builders Train Guns On Ann Arbor Land Plan
Greenbelt would protect watershed, limit sprawl.
Saving Detroit's Orchestra Hall
A heroic effort sparks ongoing revival of once-dead neighborhood.
Preservation Is The Key To Urban Revitalization
How historic preservation, including tax credit benefits, is working in Detroit to spark urban revitalization.
If You Build Hotels, Will They Come?
Detroit hopes that additional hotel units will draw more people to the city, and help remake its image in the process.
Michigan Wants To Be Cool, Too
The state’s new governor responds to recent Census data naming Detroit as first in the nation in the flight of young adults between 2000 and 2002.
Dearborn, Michigan: America's Muslim Capital
An in-depth look at Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit that - home to the second largest Arab population outside the Middle East - some call "America's Muslim capital."
A Civic Gift
Michigan preservationists reclaim history and revive local economies.
Granholm's Way
Michigan's Smart Growth Governor embraces new approach to prosperity
Virtual Is No Refuge From Reality
James Howard Kunstler writes that for children, there is "no escape from America's car-dependent, cheap-oil fiesta."
Exploring Urban Renewal Through Sustainable Urban Forestry
An all-day symposium explores the benefits of sustainable urban forestry.
The 'Property Rights' Hypocrisy
Smart Growth's opponents love taxpayer investments, decry citizen involvement
Nothing 'Free' About School Construction Feasibility
Shunning "free" feasibility studies leads schools to a wise decision.
New Urbanism Thriving In Michigan
The Athens Banner Hearld runs a three-part detailing how Michigan cities are adopting the New Urbanism.
How To Revitalize Urban Cores: Five Recommendations
Panel proposes far-reaching changes for state laws and policies in Michigan.
Doubting Economic Development In Flint
Is Flint's economic development manager a savior or a sham? Economic development success can be hard to measure.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
Clanton & Associates, Inc.
Jessamine County Fiscal Court
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
Salt Lake City
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
