Travel any reasonable distance in this country, across multiple political boundaries, and you will inevitably discover a variety practic...

My latest is up at Urban Indy .  It focuses on a charming Victorian double in the historic neighborhood of St. Joseph, immediately north of...

--> A recycling station housed in an old factory building might not seem like a novel concept, particularly in a city with a plethora o...

In a city as replete with illicitly painted buildings as Detroit, it isn’t hard to find graffiti in which the subject ma...

While the interplay between the built and natural environments occupies the bulk of my ruminations, every now and then I can’t help but ind...

Some businesses just fail to quit, though it’s not necessarily from lack of trying. And if all the negatives in that sentence di...