We highlight here some
1. How Walking, Biking, and Mass Transit Move Us Toward a Brighter Future: Transportation accounts for 25 percent of household costs in “Auto Dependent Exurbs”, compared to 9 percent in walkable communities with good transit connections.
2. A Renovated Movie Theater in Farmington Hills: The programming at the nine-screen Riviera will focus on mainstream films, and the theater will feature partial stadium seating, reclining chairs and a full bar and cocktail lounge.
3. Does Your Town Have “Good Bones”?: When people who study cities and towns say that a place “has good bones,” they mean that it has a connected network of small blocks and “lean” (not overly wide) streets. The blocks probably hold at least a few fine old buildings … Urban renewal and parking policies led to the loss of many buildings.
4. The Shopping Mall Death Spiral: Cities that tethered their future to this experiment are going to struggle while those that still have a pulse in their core neighborhoods will have a chance at renewed prosperity.
5. Too Many Parking Spots?: When we say we can’t find anywhere to park, what we usually mean is we can’t find a free or insanely cheap parking spot within spitting distance of our destination.