Nat M. Zorach, Author at The Handbuilt City

Burgerbanism No. 10 – The Angry Jerk in Silver Spring, Maryland

May 26, 2022May 26, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments angry jerk, burgerbanism, caribbean, caribbean food, coworking silver spring, customer service, DC, downtown silver spring, eastern ave, i/o spaces, i/o spaces silver spring, maryland, silver spring, silver spring maryland, tucker carlson, washington, Washington DC, white replacement theory, yelp, yelp elite

After a somewhat less than illustrious gastronomic experience at Underground Pizza, I felt it was time to give another spot

Detroit Book Reviews Mobility Sustainability Climate Michigan

Book Review: Women Driven Mobility by Katelyn Davis and Kristin Shaw

April 26, 2022April 25, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate change, decarbonization, Detroit, Electric cars, electric vehicles, electrification, emily wasley, fisker, Gretchen Whitmer, jessica robinson, karma, katelyn davis, kristin shaw, lordstown, michigan, mobility, nikola, Tesla, transportation decarbonization, transportation electrification, TSLA, women-driven mobility, wsp

Nat looks at a new book by Katelyn Davis and Kristin Shaw about women in the mobility and transportation space, and asks whether a politics of benevolent incrementalism is going to help us solve the climate crisis.

Urban Planning Burgerbanism

Burgerbanism – Underground Pizza in Downtown Silver Spring

April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments abject cuisine, billion dollar hot and ready, buddys pizza, burgerbanism, cheesy bread, dc suburbs, detroit style, detroit style pizza, dmv, downtown silver spring, dtss, eastern avenue dc, enriched bleached wheat flour, hot and ready, jets pizza, little caesars, Little Caesars Arena, Mike Ilitch, mikes pizza, new restaurants in silver spring, silver spring, terrible pizza, what is detroit style pizza, wheaton, white bread

Nat and friends check out the newest spot in downtown Silver Spring, which serves Detroit Style Pizza, a Midwestern varietal of cheesy bread slathered in marinara sauce.

Follow The Sharrow To My Heart: An Urbanist Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments affection, covid-19, detroit park city, last mile, love, missing middle, mobility, modeshare, parking theory, relationships, romance, transportation, urbanist valentine's day, urbanist valentine's day activities, valentine, valentine's day

Love comes in many typologies and densities. This Valentine’s Day, you can celebrate by thinking about some parallels between relationships and cities!

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Urban Planning Mobility Public Safety

“Bike Lanes Are Against My Morals,” Says Ohio Woman

February 9, 2022February 9, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bexley, bexley ohio, bike, bike lanes, columbus, columbus ohio, livability, ohio, protected bike lanes, retrofitting the suburbs, roads, sharrow, sharrows, street, streets, suburban sprawl, suburbs, the profoundly disappointing gesturalism of the sharrow, walkability

The economics of parking are simple. Convincing community members, though? Sometimes not so much.

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Canada Movements & Organizing

Shutting Down Trade With Our Largest Trade Partner To Own The Libs

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alberta, ambassador bridge, big truck, black lives matter, canadian truckers, detroit international bridge company, DIBC, erin o'toole, gordie howe bridge, infrastructure, justin trudeau, land of the rising timbit, matty moroun, semi, south asian, tractor-trailer, truck, trucks, US-Canada border, US-Canadian Border, war on cars, western alienation, wexit, windsor, windsor-detroit border

Though mostly vaccinated, Canadian truckers have been protesting a new vaccine mandate that affects cross-border truckers. The protests, which have clogged the Canadian capital for weeks, have now come to Windsor, where they are blocking the entrance to the Ambassador Bridge. And for what?

Business & Economics

Everyone And Their Mom Is Making An Electric Car. Few Will Prevail.

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments apple car, auto show, autonomous car, car culture, car dealerships, car parc, cars, carvana, ces, ces las vegas, chrysler, customer service, dyson, electric car, Electric cars, fisker karma, Ford, frothy markets, general motors, handbuilt mba, hybrid, lordstown, lucid, naias, next big thing, nikola, nissan, polestar, range rover, self-driving car, sony, sony ev, stellantis, Tesla, volvo, volvo xc40 recharge, vroom

Sony makes great headphones and great gaming consoles. Will they be able to make a great EV? Will everyone wading into the increasingly muddy waters of the “blue” ocean of electric vehicles be able to compete? Probably not.

Culture & Language Public transit

“You’re Entitled For Suggesting People Take Public Transportation Instead Of Stranding Themselves On I-95” – Midatlantic Liberals

January 4, 2022January 4, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, Amtrak NEC, blizzard, dc blizzard, disaster capitalism, dominion, dominion energy, Fairfax, Fairfax County, fredericksburg, fredericksburg virginia, i-95, i-95 corridor, i-95 virginia, infrastructure, interstate 95, king george county, national guard, nec, northeast corridor, northern virginia, Prince William County, public transit, snowstorm, Stafford County, transit, transit between dc and fredericksburg, transit between dc and virginia, transportation, twitter, VDOT, Vienna, virginia, virginia blizzard, Virginia Railway Express, VRE, VREx, waffle house index, weather, wmata

A rare, intense blizzard in the Midatlantic US snarled traffic on I-95, leading us to wonder: how is the car obsession even so engrained on the East Coast that people can’t imagine not driving cars?

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Public Health Government

The Real Cost Of A COVID Test? It Depends.

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments abbott binax, abbott rapid test, city of detroit, cobo center, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, COVID19, detroit documenters, kayleigh lickliter, mike duggan, nCoV19, omicron, outlier media, pcr, pcr test, polymerase chain reaction, public health, rapid pcr test, rapid test, rapid testing, tcf center, test, test site, test sites

In a city whose government has aggressively and continually underfunded public transit, human services, and infrastructure, it can sometimes prove

Book Reviews Culture & Language

Year-End Wrap-Up: Handbuilt’s 2021 Reading List

January 1, 2022January 1, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alix harrow, amazon, andrew needham, best books of 2021, book reviews, books, city of quartz, daniel amsterdam, emily st. john mandel, glass hotel, gods of jade and shadow, good books for 2021, good books for 2022, handbuilt reading list, jeff bezos, joel fleishman, laura van den berg, lost apothecary, magical realism, Mike Davis, militarization of policing, naomi klein, once and future witches, power lines, radley balko, rebecca henderson, reimagining capitalism in a world on fire, rise of the warrior cop, roaring metropolis, sally denton, sarah penner, silvia moreno-garcia, station eleven, ten thousand doors of january, the foundation a great american secret, the third hotel, thriftbooks, w. m. akers, westside gilda carr, what books should i read

2021 was, in many ways, even weirder than 2020. Was the pandemic finally over? Or was it just another series

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