Category: Community Organizing
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What’s Wrong with Detroit’s Proposed Airbnb Regulation
Read more: What’s Wrong with Detroit’s Proposed Airbnb RegulationThere are issues with how the implementation of Airbnb has evolved. Those issues should be addressed. But the regulation, as proposed, achieves little of that. In fact, what it mostly achieves is robbing those who arguably are the best examples of the model, while rewarding those who are the almost exclusive problem. I rent a…
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The Elephant in the CNU (Art 2)
Read more: The Elephant in the CNU (Art 2)And so, I was recently privileged to receive a registration waiver for the CNU27 conference in Louisville. I was delighted to be able to go, delighted to explore Louisville, and variably delighted to participate in some of the sessions. But there were just a lot of elephants we need to talk about – in the…
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The Elephant in the CNU (Art 1)
Read more: The Elephant in the CNU (Art 1)Recently, I was privileged to receive a registration waiver for the CNU27 conference in Louisville. I was delighted to be able to go, delighted to explore Louisville, and variably delighted to participate in some of the sessions. But there are a lot of elephants we need to talk about – in the microcosm of New…
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The City Corner, a Crux and Axis
Read more: The City Corner, a Crux and AxisDetroit is a unique city in that, aesthetically, it’s not a city at all. It looks, to an eye trained for urban markers, like a suburb which has a size problem and unusual industrial impact. Few commercial corridors exist in relation to the sprawling expanse of yarded homes; of those which do exist, even fewer…
