Economics of Place is the blog of Dan GiImartin, the executive director and CEO of the Michigan Municipal League. He's also an urban thinker with an eye for the small, oft-unnoticed changes that can make "places" out of streets and buildings. Here's a great example: Gilmartin examines the width of roads in vibrant urban neighborhoods like Toronto's Queen Street West and Washington DC's Adams Morgan. His conclusion? At nine lanes wide, the sheer size of Michigan Avenue hampers Corktown's energy and possibility, creating, as he writes, "a faceless drive" for motorists to speed through.
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Similar neighborhoods in cities across the world are seeing communities
reinvigorated because of these simple strategies. More of it needs to
be done in places like Detroit and elsewhere. It makes an urban
neighborhood cheaper to maintain, better for business and more fun to be
around.
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