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- Geography of the Jazz Age in North America
- Ten Planning Lessons from Detroit’s Corktown Neighborhood
- Crafting a Perfect Brewery Name, Logo, and Slogan
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Tag Archives: homeless
Cities with a Homeless Bill of Rights
On November 2, 2015 the City Commission of Traverse City adopted a Bill of Rights for homeless residents of the city. I am so very proud of my new home town for having taken this important and compassionate step. In … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, cities, civics, civility, culture, health, homelessness, Housing, human rights, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, Love, planning, politics, social equity, urban planning
Tagged cities, homeless, laws, Rights
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Are we becoming a scavenger society?
Last night, I stopped by Michigan State University’s state-of-the art Public Recycling Center to drop off my recyclables. While there, I happened to notice a woman was carrying a metal object with three-prongs at the end of it. As I … Continue reading
Posted in charities, civility, consumerism, economics, Economy, Environment, health, homelessness, humanity, politics, poverty, Recycling, unemployment
Tagged homeless, homelessness, landfills, MSU, poor, poverty, recycling, rubbish, society, trash
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Restoring hope for the “blind sides” of cities
Sunday evening I was driving through one of the less fortunate parts of Greater Lansing. While doing so I realized that even as urban planners, many of us live in sheltered cocoons during most of our professional careers. Either we … Continue reading
Posted in cities, civics, culture, diversity, economic development, education, entrepreneurship, fair trade, food systems, health, history, homelessness, human rights, immigration, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, placemaking, planning, poverty, revitalization, spatial design, sprawl, sustainability, urban planning, volunteerism
Tagged cities, homeless, inclusiveness, planning, poor, poverty, revitalization, sustainability
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Here’s something new – panhandle meters
According to a brief tidbit in this month’s Planning magazine, parking meters are not the only meters you will find along the city streets of Miami, Florida. Begun in 2010, the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust installed colorful panhandle meters for citizens and … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, economics, homelessness, Housing, land use, poverty
Tagged cities, homeless, poverty
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Where the street people have no names
The post title comes from a U2 song of nearly the same name. It seems to best epitomize this sad, yet hopeful story from npr.com. While I can see the benefit of making tourists and citizens more cognizant of and … Continue reading
