Model D TV: Downtown Vision
What will downtown Detroit look like in the future? Four teams of U-M faculty, student designers and architects present an ambitious vision in this week’s episode of Model D TV.
The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning brought some of the top architects and urban designers in the country to Detroit to present their yearlong planning process for downtown.
Divided into four teams of professionals and students, each tackled a different section of the downtown area, offering up an ambitious vision of what could be made into reality in the near future.
Click on the image below or go to YouTube to watch this week’s episode of Model D TV.
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