Special urban zones—the center, the residential zone, the industrial zone, and others—have taken shape historically in cities or have been established according to plan (primarily in cities that were rebuilt or in the new cities of the socialist countries). In new cities this zoning is usuall...
These criticisms intensified in 2017, when the Detroit Police Departmentacquired the ability to perform facial recognitionthrough the purchase of software from the company DataWorks. Facial recognitionhas been provento be more error-prone on darker skinned people and women. The technology is widely unde...
A city of resilience. A city moving forward. Flint is the largest city and seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States Of America. Located along the Flint River, 66 miles (106 km) northwest of Detroit, it is a principal city within the region known as Mid Michigan. ...
McDonald v. City of Chicago, case in which on June 28, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5–4) that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,” applies to state and local governments as well as to the fede...
Distillery district. But other cities struggle. For largely abandoned places such as downtown Detroit, Michigan, and Camden, New Jersey, loss of factory jobs and thesuburbanizationof the middle class have produced an urban wasteland. In the work, for example, of Camilo Vergara this has yielded...
If you're curious what Tulsa's zoning code and other ordinances were like in 2003, here they are, in PDF format, courtesy the late City Auditor Phil Wood, who put city government information online long before any official city website. Also includes the City Charter, list of officials fro...
SimCity puts you in the role of Mayor or City Planner of one of eight large cities, including Tokyo, Detroit, Boston and Hamburg. Or you can build, nurture and design a fictitious city of your own creation. You must build streets, churches, airports, houses and other infrastructure while ...
22, stating that providing food and shelter to people in need is a religious activity and it’s being threatened by city officials related to zoning laws. The suit also calls for charges against the pastor to be dropped while requesting certainty that the city of Bryan won’t prevent ...
and the harbor area. The primary barriers to this are the stringent zoning policies and building codes that were written precisely to exclude the types of buildings that house lower-income people affordably. This means that before the city council passes Transform Baltimore, the new zoning code, ...
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