Detroit is not all ruin porn. Mies van der Rohe's Lafayette Park is amazing. Saw it for the first time Saturday.

Amazing list of work and resources on Wild Bill Bunge, a terrific activist-geographer-cartographer.

"Sam directed me to the corner of Kitchener and Essex streets, on Detroit’s East Side, where there is now a mini-swamp or bog, roughly the contour of a basement to a house that no longer exists"

Bruce Katz suggests reinvesting in Detroit's industrial R&D, focusing redevelopment along a key corridor, and building large new parks

windsor on art group. projects include a 72 hr micro residency

"These layers of historical and metaphorical meaning together with it’s abundance made us think of the wood as an old fashioned resource for a new creative industry. Since it’s growing very fast, the wood is of poor quality, so we were told. However, it has a beautiful grain and, if processed carefully, it is a great and unusual material for sculptures or furniture."

good point about "motown," kio.

Owners of Design 99, a store where you can buy "their services as an architect and artist to anyone who can cough up 99 cents a minute, or $99 for a house call." (in Hamtramck)

ADULT., interviewed by a six year old. Pretty informative.