Kate Abbey-Lambertz

The devil’s in the details of the Fiat Chrysler deal

When Detroit City Council's development and planning subcommittee met Thursday, they didn’t simply rubber stamp the deal to offer land…

6 years ago

Get the lowdown on a pioneering woman in Detroit design

There’s plenty of Michigan icons to celebrate during the ongoingDetroit Modernism Week -- and you’re definitely familiar with their work, if…

6 years ago

Going Places

Let go of the wheel and try a new way to commute to work If you're like most people in…

6 years ago

Shipping containers were pitched as the Next Big Thing in Detroit housing — but they couldn’t get off the ground

In Detroit, the two Three Squared Inc. project sites remain empty, except a “for sale” sign on the property at…

6 years ago

Detroit is a cartographic smorgasbord

If you aren’t just looking up directions, there are some more niche maps for navigating, classifying and surveilling the roads…

6 years ago

Is this debtor’s prison?

We're paying big bucks to keep poor people in jail -- before they've been convicted of crimes By Kate Abbey-Lambertz…

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FAST transit result in speedy improvements

Metro Detroit is actually doing something right when it comes to transit, and riders are getting on board Transit has…

6 years ago

7 of Detroit’s architectural creatures watching you from above

You might not always notice the gargoyles and other faces carved on Detroit's famous buildings, but they see you...

6 years ago

Detroit has a massive eviction crisis. Here’s how the city could keep renters from losing their homes

In Detroit, a full 46 percent of people facing eviction never showed up to court in 2017, no matter their…

6 years ago

Detroit’s redlining past still plagues the city’s present

In a study, researchers suggest that in Detroit neighborhoods that were slower to recover from the Great Recession, residents were…

6 years ago