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The Planning Perspective on Detroit’s Decline

by Louis Bach, Communications

Source: detroittransithistory.info

The Urbanophile has an interesting piece by urban planner and Detroit native Pete Saunders on poor urban planning’s contribution to the decline of Detroit. He offers nine patterns related to planning and land use that exacerbated the social, economic, and political reason’s for the city’s fall.

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Population Centers Through the Decades

Detroit’s Population Center Has Shifted Northwest 1.5 Feet Per Day Since 1970

by Rob Linn, GIS SpecialistIn all of the coverage and analysis surrounding the release of the 2010 Census results, another significant landmark passed by seemingly unnoticed.  Between 2000 and 2010, the center of the metropolitan population moved 3,842 feet to the northwest, to [Read on...]

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Packing the Park: How Big is Belle Isle?

by Kevin Chapo, GIS Analyst

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 [Read on...]

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