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October 2, 2013

Community Excellence Awards Highlight Outstanding Place-Based Projects Throughout Michigan

Every year, the Michigan Municipal League's peer-nominated Community Excellence Award competition recognize transformational ideas and innovative solutions to the many challenges facing communities. Increasingly, these local success stories are place-based projects and initiatives that are having a profound socioeconomic impact…

September 5, 2013

Transit Envy

When I think of great transit, I think of European cities. That doesn't mean we don't have a few good examples in our own country, but the best examples seem to be overseas, countries that have been investing less in…

June 20, 2013

Sonic Lunch Brings Beautiful Music to Pop-Up Placemaking in Ann Arbor

Pop-up placemaking is all about light, quick, cheap and often temporary ways to energize and activate a public space. It can take many forms, and a coworker and I saw a perfect example today in Ann Arbor: the Sonic Lunch.…

June 18, 2013

CNU21- A Few Reflections

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the Congress for the New Urbanism Conference (CNU21) in Salt Lake City (SLC). I was sure that I would be let down following my barely contained anticipation of the…

May 16, 2013

Sault Ste. Marie Builds Sense of Place Through Creative Partnerships

Recently, a team of League staff members visited the city of Sault Ste. Marie on two separate missions: two staffers were there to film a new Town Gown "vlog" (video blog) on the city's partnership with Lake Superior State University,…

May 16, 2013

Michigan Municipal League 2013 Community Excellence Award Entries

The Michigan Municipal League's annual Community Excellence Award showcases innovative solutions, programs or projects that have had a positive impact on their community, and can be replicated in other communities with similar challenges. The winner from each region will go…

May 9, 2013

Happy Trails!

My colleague, Liz Shaw and I, decided that at the first faint signs of spring, we would begin our little journey of experiencing many of the great bicycle trails that wind their way through Michigan. (I should note that Liz…

March 8, 2013

Smaller, Faster, Wider: An Innovative Approach to the People and Politics of Placemaking

It started as an idle thought when Ann Arbor businessman Mark Hodesh pondered the unused lot behind his Downtown Home and Garden store: What about food trucks? In two short years, the once-vacant lot has become a hot spot for…

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