CRP Summer DETROIT TRIP

A Friday through Sunday Trip
Tentative: August 4 Friday - August 6 Sunday (Tigers play Cleveland)
if you are interested in going but can not attend this weekend, let me know.

contact Juana if you are interested. sandoval.20@osu.edu
open to all students: CRPSA, non-CRPSA, students who have graduated, PhD students...

Detroit Michigan is a region every planner should visit. It has historical significance, great old architecture, and lots of interesting neighborhoods/cities.
Most likely we will carpool up and stay in a hotel in Ann Arbor.
If you know anyone we could stay with, or planners/planning students in metro Detroit, let me know!

This is all very tentative and we don't have to do everything as a group.
We can definitely talk about the schedule and change it.

Tentative Schedule
Other Places to Go
Links
Detroit Books

Credit Options
You can sign up for this course either summer or fall quarter.
It is optional to get credit for our trip by writing a paper on a planning topic. (If you pick any planning topic you can find it in metro Detroit.)
CRP 793 credit. Independent Study P/F. This would count towards the 90 credit hours we (masters) need. Minimum 10 page paper. (double-spaced)
You do not need to sign up for credit to go on the trip.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Friday (if you want to join us Friday night that's fine)
Breakfast – Avalon bakery (Detroit), Wayne State University
driving tour of sprawl (going north on Woodward – Ferndale, Royal Oak, Birmingham)
lunch – Royal Oak has a lot of options and is walkable
drive by dead factories
late dinner – Mexicantown

Saturday
breakfast - Eastern Market
(and/or) 10 AM – Preservation Wayne tour of downtown
Heidelberg project (see the picture on the top right of the page)
check out the old theatre that's been converted to a parking lot
lunch - Poletown / Hamtramck
drive by Old Tigers Stadium
and Michigan Central Station

Sunday
after breakfast
drive by famous Ford Rouge Complex (now with Green Roof! - launch the slide show to see it)
Dearborn
lunch – Greektown
drive home

Other Places that are close by:

• obviously there are different bars, restaurants, malls, parks around
• the first TND (New Urbanism) in Michigan is in Canton, there's 2 more in Novi
• ball games Friday and Saturday night (The Tigers are good this year!)
• Canton has a new Ikea
• the "Wailing Wall" this was built to get-around federal mortgage redlining
• casinos: Greektown casino, MGM Grand casino, and Motorcity casino
• Ferndale has some cool stores, pretty walkable
• drive-in movie theatre in Detroit (first run movies)
• car factories (current and abandoned)
• Motown Museum
• Museum of African American History (Closed on Sunday.)
• Windsor (Canada)
• Diego Rivera murals at Detroit Institute of Art.
  the murals are huge- scroll to the bottom to see

Good Websites about Detroit

• Good website of architecture
• Tourism website

Detroit books you could read:
Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit – T. Sugrue 1998
Crabgrass Frontier: the Suburbanization of the US – K. Jackson 1987
Stalking Detroit – G. Daskalaskis 2001