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Packing the Park: How Big is Belle Isle?
If every member of the United States lived in an area with the population density of Brooklyn, NY (35,000 per sq mi) we all could fit into New Hampshire, the 5th smallest state. At 982 acres (1.534 sq mi), Belle Isle Park is the largest city island park in the United...
Gary Hustwit’s Urbanized Screened at the Detroit Film Theatre
The documentary “Urbanized” was shown at the DIA on Tuesday, October 11; director Gary Hustwit took questions after the screening. “Urbanized” is the third of Hustwit’s highly-regarded trilogy of documentaries about design, following “Helvetica” (on the typeface) and...
Personal Income Rides Off Into the Sunset
As home to the “Big Three,” Detroit is the Motor City, the modest region that drives the world. But what drives Detroiters? Cars, cars, cars. Sure, we have our SMART and DDOT buses, but according to the OneD Scorecard, Detroit has the sixth highest percentage of...
Detroit ranks 17th, Not First, in Crime
OR Ten Reasons Not to Trust Top Ten Lists Data Driven Detroit's mission is to provide up-to-date, objective information to inform better decisions. Often that information is negative and our first inclination is to run away from it. Accurate information is purely...
Detroit Children and Families Lose Once Again
As Steve Neavling reported on September 9, “The City of Detroit chose not to apply for a $7.5-million grant that would have helped serve 1,500 low-income children through the education program Head Start, council members were told Thursday. Officials at the Department...
Southeast Oakland County Gets It -Why Can’t Michigan???
In spite of what I would term a clearly anti-gay posture on the part of politicians in Michigan, the 2010 U.S. Census shows that 21,782 same-sex couples call Michigan home, according to a report released by the Williams Institute. However, this is likely just a...
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