by Sean Coté | Aug 15, 2023 | Detroit, Education, Featured Project, Kit Frohardt-Lane, Laura Lyons
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, recognizing the vital, enriching role music can play in students’ lives, founded Detroit Harmony in 2020. Detroit Harmony’s mission is to bring an array of musical experiences to Detroit students. In line with this mission, the...
by Sean Coté | May 31, 2023 | D3 Deep Dive, Detroit, Safety, Sean Coté, Series, transit, Walkability
In part one of this series we discovered where pedestrian- and cyclist-involved crashes are happening, determined a high injury network for pedestrians and cyclists, and compared those to traffic volumes, points of interest, and cycling infrastructure. In part two...
by Sean Coté | Apr 20, 2023 | D3 Deep Dive, Detroit, Safety, Sean Coté, Series, transit, Walkability
In September, 2022, the City of Detroit Public Works Department released a report on pedestrian safety Streets for People: Detroit Comprehensive Safety Action Plan with a vision to make Detroit streets safer for not just drivers, but for pedestrians, cyclists, and...
by Sean Coté | Aug 22, 2022 | Data Highlights, data literacy, Demographics, Detroit, Education, literacy
A persistent datapoint in conversations about Detroit is that nearly ½ of Detroit residents are illiterate. We’ve addressed the problematic methodology of that datapoint before, but we often receive many questions about literacy in the city and Metro Detroit region...
by Stephanie | Jun 23, 2022 | D3 Deep Dive, Detroit, Neighborhoods, Stephanie Quesnelle
Recently, D3 received a request for data about the number of places of worship and church-owned properties in the City of Detroit. Many churches in Detroit own additional property, such as lots adjacent to their building, or operate religious housing coalitions to...
by Sean Coté | Apr 27, 2022 | Detroit, Economy, Jordan Graves, transit
As part of updating a presentation on regional employment patterns, we created new graphics exploring the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) data, specifically looking at changes from 2015 to 2019. What is LEHD? The Longitudinal Employer-Household...
