Map: The Original Midtown Community 1953 This historic gem of a map comes from the Reuther Library and Archives, "Community Councils Manual, Dec. 1953" (page 5) published by the Detroit Federation of Community Councils. I've been diving into neighborhood histories and came across mentions of a…

Map: Detroit Food Pantry Finder 2025 The City of Detroit has taken small steps to better engage with the food system in moments of crisis. The first was food box distribution during COVID-19 and now they have a team verifying food pantries in the midst of uncertainty with federal nutrition…

Detroit By The Numbers: October 2025 Data Roundup Make it count! Detroit By The Numbers latest monthly segment where we highlight significant data and numbers from the past month for Detroiters! 21 New DDOT bus bump-outs along Jefferson Avenue (APTA). 23% Detroit lawmaker attends less than a third…

Event: Lost Subways of North America Book Talk with Jake Berman We've enjoyed featuring Jake Berman's transit fantasy maps that include Detroit. Come hear him talk about the resulting book "Lost Subways of North America" at Next Chapter Books. WHEN: Thursday, November 13th @ 6:30PM WHERE: Next…

Event: Detroit GIS Day 2025 We are very excited this year to have Sharon Cornelissen as our keynote speaker this year. She is director of housing at the Consumer Federation of America and soon-to-be published book based on her dissertation work: “The Last House on the Block: Black Homeowners,…

Event: Detroit Data Forum: Wildlife in the City Welcome to our Data Forum where we will discuss wildlife in the city. Join us online for lunch-and-learn filled with insightful discussions, tips, and tricks on all things related to the data. We’ll be joined by the Nyeema Harris from the Yale…

Detroit By The Numbers: September 2025 Data Roundup Make it count! Detroit By The Numbers latest monthly segment on the Authentically Detroit podcast is live! We highlight significant data and numbers from the past month for Detroiters! Listen to the September Data Roundup 44 Units of unsubsidized…

Event: Imagining Greater Detroit-Windsor: Inspiring Ideas for Thriving Together Join the Greater Detroit-Windsor Project and Regional Centre for Expertise for a day filled with insightful presentations, panels, discussions, networking opportunities, and interactive collaboration at our inaugural…

Map: Detroit Walkable Accessibility Score The City of Detroit has a clear walkability problem outside of certain zones, like Midtown, Corktown, Hamtramck, or pockets in Northwest Detroit. More from the project: ... the Walkable Accessibility Score measures the average accessibility to nearby urban…

Detroit Recreation Property Map 1976 I can't remember where I found this map, but I'm glad that I did. The map is huge and could only be scanned using the large format, flat-bed scanner at the Reuther Library. This map is printed on this heavy paper, thick to the touch almost like a stiff fabric.…

Event: #Maptime Fall 2025 Series WHEN: Mondays, starting September 15th, from 12-4PM WHERE: Prentis Building Fishbowl, Wayne State University, 5201 Cass Ave. WHAT: Come co-work on your mapping project, get support learning GIS, or just chat about maps! RSVP: Let us know you're coming!

Map: Distressed Communities Index in Detroit 2025 I don't generally look to these index rankings of Detroit, but the comparisons are powerful. Detroit is a donut hole in the region; surrounded by communities of higher prosperity and higher opportunity. The city sits on par with Cleveland, Buffalo,…

Detroit By The Numbers: August 2025 Data Roundup Make it count! Detroit By The Numbers latest monthly segment on the Authentically Detroit podcast is live! We highlight significant data and numbers from the past month for Detroiters! Listen to the August Data Roundup 90% The overwhelming majority…

Event: Detroit Data Forum: Traffic Data and Crashes Welcome to our Data Forum where we will discuss traffic data, mobility, and safety in the city. Join us online for lunch-and-learn filled with insightful discussions, tips, and tricks on all things related to the data. We’ll be joined by the…

Map: Detroit SMART MODES Road Safety Hub The City of Detroit has launched a new tool to track road safety: The Detroit SMART MODES dashboard is officially live! This powerful new tool uses real-time data to detect near-misses and support smarter, safer street design across the city. Developed in…

Detroit Eliza Howell Park Trail Map I really enjoyed collaborating with Sidewalk Detroit on developing trail maps and wayfinding markers for Eliza Howell Park. My early foray into mapping was when I was in high school and used by uncle's handheld GPS to trace trails at a local park that did not…

Event: Detroit Data Forum: Arts and Creative Ecosystem Welcome to our Data Forum where we will discuss the arts and creative institutions in the city and their connections. Join us online for lunch-and-learn filled with insightful discussions, tips, and tricks on all things related to the data.…

Detroit By The Numbers: July 2025 Data Roundup I'm so excited that Detroit By The Numbers will be a new monthly segment on the Authentically Detroit podcast! We'll highlight significant data and numbers from the past month for Detroiters! Listen to the July Data Roundup 62 percent of active voters…

Map: Detroit Rental Housing Gap Moody's may have increase Detroit's credit rating over the years, but Moody's Analytics still recognizes the difficulties and gaps in serving Detroiters. Rental housing in Detroit in particular is an on-going discussion with efforts to finance "affordable housing,"…

Where’s my polling place? Search new online tool to see voting location The Vote Detroit tool was created by Detroit activist Alex Hill in partnership with the Detroit Democracy Project and EngagedMI.

Mapping Out Your Detroit Polling Place 2025 Knowing where to vote and how to get there should be the easy parts of voting. Democracy depends on engagement and Detroit has relatively low levels overall from the loss of city services, emergency management, and general apathy towards local…

Map: Detroit Bike Network Analysis 2025 The 2025 City Ratings are out from People for Bikes. In the past, Detroit has not scored very well but some methodological changes have helped give a clearer picture of where Detroit stands among other global, United States, and Midwest regional cities. One…

Detroit By The Numbers: June 2025 Data Roundup 9 city-sponsored Arts Alleys over the next month and has commissioned 47 artists to install art in the alleys (City of Detroit) 31 updated polling places for the 2025 Detroit Primary on August 5th. Check your polling place and precinct at:…

Map: Regional Detroit Map Puzzle Results 2025 Since launching the map puzzle in September 2024, we've had almost 400 puzzle submissions from cities and municipalities across the 7-county region. The puzzle asks users to place all the municipalities correctly that border the City of Detroit. The…

Map: School Adjacent Shootings in Detroit 2015 – 2024 Gun violence affects so many young people in Detroit and the trauma of experiencing violence and losing someone to violence has lasting effects. I had this exact analysis in my head for a number of years, but glad to see team at The Trace…

Detroit Coffee Map 2025 The ever constant search for coffee around the city continues. Since last year there have been 20 new coffee shops and only 3 closures since I last updated the map in 2024. This is the smallest number of closures year-over-year since 2015 which is why Detroit has the…

Map: Detroit Tax Foreclosure Windfalls Outreach 2025 detroitography.com/2025/06/16/m...

Event: Detroit Data Forum: Clean Energy Welcome to our Data Forum where we will discuss clean energy advancements in Detroit. Join us in-person or online for lunch-and-learn filled with insightful discussions, tips, and tricks on all things related to the data. We’ll be joined by the Tepfirah…

Detroit By The Numbers: May 2025 Data Roundup 400 election precincts (cleaned up version) down from 502 precincts in the 2020 election and 450 in the 2022 election with 401 polling places, yet some people travel more than 3 miles past 6-7 polling places to reach their assigned polling place…

Map: Analysis of Speed Hump Efficacy in Detroit detroitography.com/2025/06/09/m... by @tedtansley.bsky.social

Today's Weather for Detroit: 🌡️ 76°F – Scattered clouds 🌬️ Wind: 6 mph Current AQI for Detroit: 🟡 58 - Moderate - O3 | 🟠 108 - Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups - PM2.5 | 🟢 45 - Good - PM10 Follow for more info on Michigan cities ---> planetdetroit.org/air-quality-...

Take a look at this project I had the opportunity to work on for @detroitography.com . I built a data pipeline and dashboard to showcase Detroit's 311 data. tedtansley.github.io/2025/04/21/e...

Event: Detroit Data Forum: Health Data and Assessments Welcome to our Data Forum where we will discuss City, County, and Hospital health assessments in Detroit. Join us online for lunch-and-learn filled with insightful discussions, tips, and tricks on all things related to the data. We’ll be…

Map: The Geography of Voting in Detroit Voting in Detroit is not known to be easy and the numbers of voters reflect that difficulty. Election Day confusion is well-known and documented even amongst regular voters. Polling places have changed and in some cases changed again. In 2020, the City Clerk…

Event: Detroit Regional Transit Fantasy Support Group with TRU Join the annual and unofficial Detroit Regional Transit Fantasy Support (DRTFS) Group. Come see the great transit fantasy maps of the Detroit region and make your own! Propose people mover expansions or subway tunnel routes. Rocket…

Detroit By The Numbers: April 2025 Data Roundup 25,000 trees planted as part of the Tree Equity Partnership's goal of 75,000 by 2027 (WDET) 56 mentions of "neighborhood" by Mayor Duggan in his State of the City speech in 2024 after a previous high of 43 in 2015 (DETROITography/Ted Tansley) Check…

Event: Detroit Data Forum: Race and Ethnicity Welcome to our Data Forum where we will explore how race and ethnicity data are captured and tracked as well as improvements in the works. Join us online for lunch-and-learn filled with insightful discussions, tips, and tricks on all things related to…

Event: Detroit Regional Transit Fantasy Support Group with TRU Join the annual and unofficial Detroit Regional Transit Fantasy Support (DRTFS) Group. Come see the great transit fantasy maps of the Detroit region and make your own! Propose people mover expansions or subway tunnel routes. Rocket…

Map: My Detroit Life by: joanne coutts detroitography.com/2025/04/21/m...

#ConnectedGeographies epitomised by fascinating live link up with Alex of @detroitography.com from the USA-Canada border in @geogriffi.bsky.social 'Moving beyond the Drosscape: insider perspectives on Detroit' @geographicalassoc.bsky.social #GAConf25 e.g. hand model of #HubAndSpoke urban morphology

Map: Detroit Regional Rail Fantasy Map detroitography.com/2025/04/14/m...

Today’s event is an interactive workshop for community members to help develop policies that address housing and neighborhood needs in Detroit. If you can’t make it today, the next workshop is Monday, Apr 14 at 5pm. Here’s the registration link:

I collected transcriptions of Mike Duggan's State of the City speeches over his 12 years and ran keyword matching analysis to see patterns over time. Read more about it here: detroitography.com/2025/04/07/d...

Detroit by the Numbers: State of the City 2014 - 2025 detroitography.com/2025/04/07/d...

Map: Little Village Detroit detroitography.com/2025/04/04/m...

Attended a workshop @detdocumenters.bsky.social hosted today called “Mapping Your Local Environment” & made this map of everyone I was in touch with about claiming auction profits in the last two months, on top of a heat map of homes that qualify to claim interest according to Wayne County Treasurer

Had a great time at @detdocumenters.bsky.social 's Mapping Your Local Environment workshop. I decided to map public bathroom data from DetroitData.org . You can see my map here: felt.com/map/Detroit-...

A fun distraction from what I'm supposed to be working on, for those familiar with the Detroit metro - thanks, @alexbhill.bsky.social! ol-samples.pages.dev

"Urban Highways Are Barriers to Social Ties" out on PNAS! The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

DETROITography aims to empower residents to identify their neighborhoods.