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DETROIT FUTURE CITY URBAN PLANNER TONI L. GRIFFIN SPEAKS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

In a small Columbia University speech hall, NY-based Toni L. Griffin, Director of Techinical Planning Team Urban Planning and Design for the American City, spoke to an almost full room about how she had been asked to come to Detroit to help figure out what to do the overwhelming amount of land not being utilized […]

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LIGHT RAIL PUBLIC TRANSIT ALONG WOODWARD AVENUE WILL MODERNIZE DOWNTOWN

Detroit’s once-booming automotive industry paved way for the sprawling suburbs in which Woodward Avenue now extends, but along with that 20th century innovation came the well-known de-population of downtown Detroit. Now the question has become, how do we bring people- young, working people- back downtown and bring the city into the 21st century? One major way is: public transportation. The […]

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