From Marco Channing's blog, originally published via urbanophile.com The troubles of Detroit are well-publicized. Its economy is in free fall, people are streaming for the exits, it has the worst racial polarization and city-suburb divide in America, its government is feckless and corrupt (though I should hasten to add ...

Architectural Society announces Inspiration+Intervention presentation series The St. Clair Society of Architects (SCSA) announces the first in a series of presentations entitled [Re] Windsor_Inspiration+Intervention to be held at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts, Salon A, on October 29 at 6:30 ...

Late urban champion's notions about decline and imports newly resonant during this recession. By: Judith D. Schwartz |  October 24, 2009  Full article here: http://tiny.cc/u8L06 How is that economic stimulus package working for you? Think TARP was worth those billions? Perhaps our financial system is back from the brink, but ...

TEDxDetroit: How to harness wind energy without blades with Detroit manufacturing What if we could create wind energy without using windmills?  What if we could do it in Detroit, using the city's now-underutilized manufacturing base? That's exactly what Dawn White and her Ann Arbor-based ...

... Communities in Boom: Canada’s Top Entrepreneurial Cities October 2009 Queenie Wong, Research Analyst The 2009 rankings reveal that the majority of urban fringes outscore city cores. Select cities in Saskatchewan and Quebec show better than average performance in providing a good environment for small business development. Generally, areas outside of ...

Toronto street furniture: garbage in, garbage out Why don't we invest in making our sidewalks look great? If cities are an expression of civic consciousness, our politicians and urban designers must think we're pretty dumb. Take a look at streets and sidewalks in Canada and tell ...

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Early on I established that my position with respect to scaling down was not that I thought it was hip, the next big thing in architectural fashion but, that we would have no choice in the matter. Last week's post generated a bit of discussion and I'd like to push it ...