Mark Maynard | urban planning

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Vikram Bastian

By Mark | March 20, 2013

Next Thursday, assuming I can keep the panic attacks at bay, I’ll be conducting live exit interviews in front of a raucous, beer-swilling crowd at Conor O’Neills, as part of Concentrate Media’s moderately-distinguished speaker series. (It’s free, and open to the public, but, if you’d like to attend, you need to register in advance.) Here, [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Adrienne Berry, alcoholism, American exceptionalism, Ann Arbor Free School, Ann Arbor Public Library, Anthony Meza Wilson, big banks, binge drinking, Bitchpork, brown people, Canadian shame, Canadians, Casa Jezebel, conservative parents, cooperatives, counterculture, credit unions, Davy Rothbart, Degrassi Jr High, Degrassi Junior High, depression, dumpster diving, edifice complex, Eric Stephenson, Eric Sturgis, Erin Brockavitch, Evan Bicker Williams, exit interviews, Far House, Forest Juziuk, Freaks, Fred Thomas, free school, geeks, haircuts that destroyed families, hedonism, Hotel Midwest, house shows, houses with names, hubris, Ian Fulcher, illegal alien, India, Jambo, Jambo Man, Jef Porkins, John Roos, John Rowland, Joseph Bollinger, Katherine Scott, Kayj, Kiran Nigam, KKK, Logan Schaedig, Manufacturing Consent, Michael Firn, Michelle Winkfield, Mississauga, MLK, moderates, music scenes, Noam Chomsky, Oakland, Ontario, Our New Library, Patrick Elkins, Pitchfork, Protect Our Library, punks, race, Raphael Brim, sadism, San Francisco, Sasha Kimel, Shelly Salant, Socialism, Steffanie Stauffer, Sumangala Kailasapathy, The Found House, Thom Elliott, undocumented resident, undocumented worker, University of Michigan, Vikram Bastian, Water Street, web development, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 47 Comments

Jeff Speck on the “walkability dividend”

By Mark | January 7, 2013

I hesitate to post one more article about how great Portland is, as doing so just makes me feel that much worse about this state in which I’m currently trapped, but I just happened across a short interview between Richard “I speak for the creative class” Florida and Jeff Speck, the author of the new [...]

Posted in Observations, Other, Rail, Uncategorized | Also tagged Big 3, bike lanes, Border to Border Trail, bulldoze the suburbs, car culture, CEOs for Cities, city planning, creative class, fringe suburbs, Joe Cortright, mass transit, New Urbanism, Portland, Richard Florida, suburbs, urban growth boundary, walkability, Washtenaw Biking and Walking Coalition, Ypsi-Ann, Ypsi-Ann Interurban | 7 Comments

The U-M architects charged with envisioning Ypsilanti’s much anticipated recreation center share their designs, and discuss why this “new civic anchor” is so important to the future of the city

By Mark | September 26, 2012

As I think most of you know, a team of University of Michigan architects and their graduate students were approached some time ago and asked to envision what a new Water Street recreation center might look. Having completed their design concepts, they will be presenting their work to the citizens of Ypsilanti at SPARK East [...]

Posted in Architecture, Sustainability, Ypsilanti | Also tagged architecture, Border to Border Trail, brown field, Cathy Duchon, city planning, community building, community facilities, Craig Borum, Eastside Recreation Center, economic development, emerald necklace, flooding, Huron River, Huron River greenway, Jen Maigret, MAde studio, Maria Arquero, Michigan Avenue, Olmstead Brothers, our fragile downtown business ecosystem, PLY Architecture, public space, recreation center, Riverside Park, Robert Marans, sustainable urbanism, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, trees, University of Michigan, urban form, walkable downtown, Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation, Washtenaw County Parks Commission, water management, Water Street, Waterworks Park, YMCA | 33 Comments

Tea Party derails green projects, calling them U.N. plots, and exposes NYT journalism failings in the process

By Mark | February 5, 2012

Remember how, a few weeks ago, the Public Editor of the New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, wrote a column inexplicably asking if it should be the job of journalists to be “truth vigilantes,” as though there were other legitimate options to be weighed in this highly-politicized, post-reality world in which we find ourselves today? Well, [...]

Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged activism, Agenda 21, American Planning Association, American Policy Center, benito.strauss, bike lanes, carbon emissions, conspiracy theories, fair and balanced, gompa, green jobs, journalism, Maine, manipulation of the stupid, Newt Gingrich, public transportation, stupid Americans, Sustainability, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism, Tom DeWeese, truth vigilantes, United Nations, world order | 13 Comments

American exurbs are dying, is America?

By Mark | December 1, 2011

U-M professor of urban planning Christopher B. Leinberger had an interesting op-ed a few days ago in the New York Times on the death of the fringe suburb in America. Here’s a clip. …By now, nearly five years after the housing crash, most Americans understand that a mortgage meltdown was the catalyst for the Great [...]

Posted in Food, Sustainability, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bernie Sanders, Black Friday, Burlington, cannibal holocaust, Christopher B. Leinberger, Community Supported Agriculture, consumerism, CSA, food revolution, fringe suburbs, Intervale, Intervale Food Hub, Jim Kunstler, local food, local food production, Mark Bittman, suburbs, sustainable communities, Travis Marcotte, University of Michigan, urban living, urbs, Vermont | 5 Comments

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Jeff Speck on the “walkability dividend”

The U-M architects charged with envisioning Ypsilanti’s much anticipated recreation center share their designs, and discuss why this “new civic anchor” is so important to the future of the city

Tea Party derails green projects, calling them U.N. plots, and exposes NYT journalism failings in the process

American exurbs are dying, is America?

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