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 […]
Tag Archives: walkability
Jeff Speck on the “walkability dividend”
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, urban planning, Washtenaw Biking and Walking Coalition, Ypsi-Ann, Ypsi-Ann Interurban 7 Comments
Ypsi immigration interview: Valerie Bieberich
I’m thinking that, from now on, I should draw new Ypsi residents, in addition to interviewing them. I think it would be particularly interesting in those cases when I’ve never met the individual face-to-face. (I think it would make my email interviews a lot more interesting, if, in addition to asking questions about why folks […]
Ypsilanti immigration interview: Michael Geminder
As you know, over the past few weeks, I’ve been interviewing people who have, for one reason or another, chosen to leave the Ypsi/Arbor area in hopes of making a better life somewhere else. While I think I had a pretty good sense as to why people generally leave our community, I thought that it […]
Posted in Ypsilanti Also tagged bike friendly, community gardens, interviews, San Jose, second home, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Ypsilanti 10 Comments