The Handbuilt City

Art & Design Movements & Organizing Poverty 

Just When We Thought There Was Nothing Left To Gentrify, They Gentrified… Protest Speech?

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments antonio cosmé, black lives matter, protest, protest art, public art, public space, quicken, Quicken Loans, woodward

A big to-do was made about Dan Gilbert’s effort to paint “POWER TO THE PEOPLE” in prominent, white and black

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Movements & Organizing Public Health Public Safety 

A Tale Of Two Protests

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments 1a, 2a, black lives matter, chief craig, demonstrations, Detroit, economic justice, gun rights, guns, LGBTQ, LGBTx, mike duggan, pride, protest, protesters, protests, second amendment, social justice, St. Louis

We sure have seen it all in 2020. An impeachment trial. A global pandemic. Climate change. Genocide. Murder hornets. A

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Construction Energy Efficiency Historic preservation 

Major Home Repair: To Go Gas-Free, Perchance To Dream?

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments draft vented combustion appliances, energy, energy efficiency, furnaces, heat pumps, home rehab, home renovation, home repair, rehab

Is it worth the premium to go electric? Maybe– if you have a good excuse to, like part of your house falling down. But it’s still going to run you a pretty penny.

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Gun Control Movements & Organizing Public Safety 

Black Guns Matter: Firearm Culture and the Protest Movement

June 17, 2020June 19, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments AK47, AR15, black lives matter, black panthers, demonstrations, detroit police, george floyd, gun culture, guns, protest, protest movements, protesters, protests, second amendment

Guns in protest movements have a long, colorful history. Do they have a place in the modern movement against police brutality and militarization? Nat speaks with Ontario-based firearms enthusiast and scholar AJ Somerset.

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Business & Economics 

COVID19 Has Birthed The Ultimate Frankenstinian Monster of Corporate Austerity

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments consumer economy, consumer protection, consumerism, coronavirus, corporate, corporations, covid, COVID19, customer service, retail, retail economy

We are experiencing unusually high call volume. Your call is very important to us and will be answered in the

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Urban Planning 

Quarter 2, We Hardly Knew Ye: Up Next at Handbuilt

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments general updates, updates

Quick life updates.

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Public Health Seattle Tech Urban Planning 

Did Cities Ever Need Tech, Anyway? Seattle vs. the Post-COVID Economy

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Amanda Spiegel 0 Comments amazon, coronavirus, covid, crime, homelessness, housing, housing crisis, housing insecurity, housing security, missing middle, public health, seattle, tableau, tech, tech bubble

Long a sleepy seaport town, Seattle was enjoying a fraught, decade-long flirtation with explosive growth– and inequality. Will COVID bust up the party forevermore?

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Detroit Public Safety 

No Tear Gas at Sixth Night of Protests in Detroit; Journalists Again Assaulted

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments ACLU, breonna taylor, chief craig, city of detroit, civil rights, Constitutional rights, Detroit, detroit police department, downtown detroit, DPD, east side, george floyd, gratiot, james craig, protest, public safety

While last night’s protest ended relatively peacefully, with no tear gas or rubber bullets, assaults of journalists continued in a troubling trend.

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Lifestyle 

Conquering COVIDbrain: Things Blocking Your Productivity and How To Fix Them

June 2, 2020June 2, 2020 Evan Eichelberger 0 Comments coronavirus, covid, COVID19, covid19 diaries, diet, improve productivity, lifestyle, nutrition, productivity, WFH, work-from-home

Evan writes about some strategies for tackling hindrances to your own productivity as we all face challenging times.

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Adaptation & Resilience Business & Economics 

Anecdotes from The Alleged Retail Apocalypse

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments big box, big box retail, black lives matter, consumer spending, coronavirus, cottage industry, covid, COVID19, Detroit, detroit economy, hardware, hardware stores, local economy, protests, retail, retail apocalypse, retail economy, supply chain, supply chains

Is retail dead? Probably not. Big box retail, though, may need to rethink some things.

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