Telling the Story of Cities
Five articles curated by the Wagner Planner staff: Here’s what the Wagner Planner staff is reading. This week: tech billionaires’ plans for a new city, the Adams administration’s request to suspend the right to shelter is paused, and a potential land value tax in Detroit. “New” Cities? An Old Idea Corner Side Yard “Americans are drawn… Read more What We’re Reading – October 24
Five articles curated by the Wagner Planner staff: Here’s what the Wagner Planner staff is reading. This week: the continued survival of Chinatown, highway expansions across America, Detroit’s half-baked freeway removal, our inequitable cities, and the decline of walking, biking, and the school bus. Saving Chinatown, While Also Making It Their Own (NYT Style Magazine)… Read more WHAT WE’RE READING – SEPTEMBER 26
Amid staffing challenges, Detroit is reimagining its beleaguered bus system while its suburbs risk allowing transit to languish The city of Detroit and its surrounding suburbs are headed in opposite directions on bus transit. At the root of the issue: labor and leadership. Despite persistent staffing challenges, leaders in Detroit are showing increased willingness to… Read more Labor Issues are Holding Up Transit Improvements in Metro Detroit
The fight over housing affordability and density in Cupertino captures the struggle for the soul of suburban America. Cupertino, California is in some sense, not special at all. It’s a classic postwar suburb with leafy subdivisions of single-family homes connected by arterial roads and freeways and a population of 60,000 people. An hour south of… Read more Suburban Skylines: One tech suburb’s struggle to grow and keep its character
Detroiters have more access to grocery stores per capita than its suburbs. Mainstream media often refers to Detroit as a “food desert,” an urban area where it is difficult to buy affordable or high quality food. There just aren’t enough grocery stores, reports say, as chain supermarkets refuse to open locations in the city. This… Read more Is Detroit a food desert?