Governor Granholm’s office has created a website to ask young people in Michigan what could be done to make our cities “cooler.” I posted about it yesterday – the survey on MichiganCoolCities.com is online. However, I’ve heard you won’t hear much about it through traditional channels until January 15, when the Governor will send an […]
If you haven’t heard, U.S. forces in Iraq have captured Saddam Hussein. Unfortunately, the one man truly responsible for 9/11 remains at large: Osama bin Laden.
I know the website says the seller is in California, but something tells me this expensive LCD projector wasn’t an unwanted gift – maybe it’s the metal bracket that gives it away. I think I know someone missing a few. Also, my friend tipped me off to this interactive electoral map. With presidential election results […]
Articles of note: “Unfortunately, it is inevitable that these further cuts will affect our academic programs in ways that students will notice,” Courant said. > From “Proposed 5% cut alarms U-M” > And “State OKs petition to ban affirmative action”
I just found this excellent Washington Post feature called “Faces of the Fallen.”
Here are David Sucher’s ‘three rules’ to follow to build an ‘urban village’, from his book “City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village”: 1) Build to the sidewalk2) Make the building front “permeable” (i.e., no blank walls)3) Prohibit parking lots in front of the building “The Three Rules are the “one big thing” we […]
A Michigan blogger has just posted some photos taken in the abandoned Michigan Central Station and the Fisher Body Plant #21.