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Map: NatureScore in Detroit 2024

Detroit has made substantial investments into its parks, secured funding for a city loop greenway, and fostered partnerships to improve amenities. This map shows off a number of neighborhoods where access to greenspace is plentiful, but nearby cities like Dearborn, Hamtramck, and Downtown Detroit are lacking. Northwest Detroit is a the main standout in Detroit where improvements could be made.…

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Map: City of Detroit Employee Disclosures by ZIP Code 2022

When the Detroit Free Press published their extensive PDF list of FOIAed disclosure statements from City of Detroit senior employees, Directors, Deputy Directors, Chiefs, and similar senior roles, I was fascinated by how little information was included in those disclosures as well as the wide range of regional home addresses. I present here and close the case for regional transit. The residence…

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Detroit By The Numbers: March 2024 Data Roundup

5,525 homes where official owner was deceased (Michigan Public) 11 million DDOT riders in 2023 (DDOT) 9% Detroit home owners are uninsured (Consumer Federation of America) 400 workers Stellantis let hundreds go in mass firing event (FOX 2)

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Event: Transit Fantasy Support Group with YPT Detroit

Detroiters and non-Detroiters alike will never stop fantasizing about having a robust and connected rapid transit system. These transit fantasy maps are often trailed by comments of “what’s the point” or “we’re never gunna have that,” but why stop dreaming? and planning? and connecting? WHEN: Tuesday, April 30th at 6pm WHERE: North End Taproom, 111 S. Main, Royal Oak WHAT: Meet others who…

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Map: Our Southwest [Detroit] Tour

by: Lauren Forgacs, other work ‘Our Southwest Tour’ map was initially created to explore new forms of graphic representation, but quickly turned into a piece that we incorporated into one of our current Southwest Detroit projects, a boba tea shop. As we began the process, we wanted to be intentional about how we blended the history of boba tea into the history of Southwest. In order to enrich…

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Map: Where Fires Happen in Detroit 2015

Back in 2015, Loveland Technologies, now ReGrid, listened to the scanner from January to July and visited hundreds of fires to survey the impact on property and people. There were 2,938 structure damaging fires surveyed with 58% under suspicious circumstances or arson. The hot spots really stood out to me as areas facing high levels of crime and areas on the fringes of population centers in the…

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Map: Flight Obstruction Area Detroit City Airport 1968

The “flight obstruction area” comprises all areas of land or water below the airport referenced imaginary surfaces for each airport. Since its beginning, the Detroit City Airport has continued to gobble up residential space in the name of development, but also safety. In the recent budget presentations, the City Airport Director said they condemned 35 additional residential properties. The…

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Event: #PlanDetroit Master Plan Update Kickoff Meetings

Join us in shaping the future of Detroit! Attend upcoming DON meetings for a virtual kickoff of the city’s Master Plan update. Let’s go forward together. #PlanDetroit

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Map: School Absences and WIC Enrollment 2016

I’ve been digging through my archives and came across a set of maps I made while working for the Detroit Health Department (DHD). It seems a good time to share now that DPSCD is launching health hubs with funding support from the Pistons. School absenteeism is a widespread and known issue among the Detroit school age population. The factors and causes are numerous and variable, but broadly…

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Detroit River Corridor Carbon Emissions Inventory Map

by: Gene Estrada, Detroit River Story Lab, University of Michigan This map was created by the Detroit River Story Lab at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Our goal is to estimate the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions (i.e., create an emissions inventory) for the Detroit River Corridor. We created this online, interactive map as an accessible tool for anyone interested in…

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Detroit By The Numbers: February 2024 Data Roundup

38% increase in police complaints between 2022 and 2023 (BOPC) 6° increase in Detroit’s average temperature (Climate Central) 149,192 households to lose affordable internet access (FCC) 1,000 locations participating in the controversial Project Green Light program. (DPD)

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Event: Open Data Day 2024

I’m really excited to share that DETROITography was awarded a mini-grant from the sponsors of Open Data Day 2024 sponsors: Jokkolabs Banjul, Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), Open Knowledge Germany, Datopian and Link Digital. DETROITography’s focus has always been on small data, neighborhood level data where others focused on the big or institutional data. We’ve always wanted to get Detroiters…

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Map: African American Monument Disparities

The National Monument Audit by Monument Lab revealed that there are just two “monuments” dedicated to African Americans out of nearly 130 monuments documented. Joe Louis Fist Martin Luther King Jr. scuplture You could add the new MLK statue at Hart Plaza and the underground railroad feature at the riverfront by Hart Plaza, but still that’s only four. The Martin Luther King Jr. statue was just…

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Map: Detroit Edison Route Map of the City of Detroit 1980

This simple map of main roads and expressways served as a minimalist route map for the Detroit Edison Co., what would become DTE Energy. The most interesting element is the typed title of the source and publisher of the map “Generation Engineering, Cartography.” DTE had a cartography division into the 1980s and I wonder how much of a bridge that team was from the grandiose maps and plans of…

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Map: Reliable Detroit Transit

by: Connor Pierce, Wayne State University (Intro to GIS, Fall 2023) I believe transit frequency to be one of the best metrics for evaluating the success of a public transportation network. If a system has long wait-times between vehicles, it reduces the reliability of the system for the average rider. If a person is traveling on more than one transit line, the chance of making their transfer…

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Map: New Detroit City Council Districts for 2025

During their vote on February 6, the Detroit City Council swiftly selected “Option 6.” It was the last requested council redistricting map option that creates the least amount of change, but meets the bare minimum of the redistricting requirements for population distribution. The most populous, District 1, will still have 8% more people than the least populous District 3. I’m not sure that the…

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Detroit By The Numbers: January 2024 Data Roundup

542 “Detroit” places in Detroit, next most is 23 in Southfield (Model D Media) 39% Homeless families report domestic violence (City of Detroit) $16.5 million Awarded to the City government for service line replacement in two areas: Midtown (Cultural Center, Medical Center, Midtown) and Barton-McFarland [McFarlane?] (EGLE) 1 million Qline riders in 2023, a 50% increase from 2022 (QLINE)