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Before the age of billboards, radio, and television advertising, the easiest and most convenient way to market a business was through branding, usually painting on the exterior...

The transit alternative giant in Detroit is Quicken Loans. CEO Dan Gilbert has been a huge supporter of the new M1 Light Rail plan along Woodward Avenue, launched a company-wide...

I chose this specific data since it can directly represent the growth the city of Detroit has gained through multiple factors, such as popular events, sights, food, and history....

Detroit is a city on the move. New construction and real estate development has been on a break-neck pace that even a COVID slowdown can’t seem to stifle. As a result the...

The 1937 edition was limited to New York City, but by 1938 it was “listing all of the States east of the Mississippi River.” The Green Book became a directory of an different...

The goal of this site is to collectively map neighborhoods as an image of the city in maps and words. No neighborhood names or boundaries are here to start with. You make the...

Trash strewn grass and parking lots, overgrown sidewalks, and messy interiors are mainstays at Detroit’s dollar stores. Consistently out of compliance with city blight...

Compared to its music and visual arts scenes, Detroit's literary culture is scarce...or so it seems. The city has been slow to celebrate its rich contributions to literature and...

We answer the question, “How have pheasants survived and thrived in the urban setting of Detroit, and have they always been here?”

The obvious answer is yes, Detroit neighborhoods have been mapped many, many times by many different people, groups, and entities. Some Detroit neighborhoods are best understood...

The map shows that over the years the Detroit Design Festival (DDF) has become more concentrated in specific areas as well as increased the number of hosted “happenings” or...

The initial map of this post represents the results found in the second map. It includes the total calculated size of the catchment area for frequent transit lines in Detroit...

I had the pleasure of working with the Detroit Food Policy Council (DFPC) to produce their annual report and pull together some key metrics on the City’s food system. You can...

During both World War efforts, Detroit’s factories and their manufacturing might was flipped from automobile production to support for the war effort. During World War II, at...