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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Planners are tasked with considering the future and dealing with it, not trying to prevent change necessarily, but instead working to manage it and mitigate and limit negative effects, in ways that are good for the city in general and neighborhoods specifically, simultaneously. At the same time, there is a different cleavage.

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Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

Public Policy Blog

The city’s pension boards have accused Emergency Manager Orr’s team of failing to negotiate in good faith over changes to retiree pensions (NPR) which I feel will be the single largest hang-up and possibility for a bailout scenario that Detroit has in order to salvage retiree benefits and incomes. Retrieved from [link].

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