Environment Health History Land Planning Research Transit
Mapping Flint
Flint, the Vehicle City, birthplace of the General Motors Company and the United Auto Workers, a vanishing city propelled to the spotlight by one of the largest municipal public health crises in the 21st Century, the Flint Water Crisis
Category: Transit
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I found these “Flint by Foot” maps by The Greenway Collaborative to be interesting as a point in time image of what Downtown looked like and how opportunities were presented before the Great Recession and before the Flint Water Crisis. Walking across Downtown from Kettering to Mott Park past UM Flint campus was estimated to…
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What if “Vehicle City” had a metro rail system? This is a long running topic for the Detroit metro area where I organize an annual “transit fantasy” meetup where people have created over a dozen fake mass transit systems over the years. This transit fantasy map of Flint comes from Redditor, RikkaTheSecond: I was bored…
Mapping Flint 