Nat M. Zorach, Author at The Handbuilt City

Happy Canada Day!

This Canada Day, I drove all the way from Detroit to celebrate in a foreign country (a.k.a. “across the river”)–

News broke last week that coal producer Wyoming-based Cloud Peak Energy is filing for bankruptcy. Let’s face it: the future

With HBO now coming after Detroit’s second-favorite billionaire family in the city’s Holy Trinity– comprising the Ilitches, Dan Gilbert, and

Let me get this straight. Paul Manafort got sentenced to less than eight years in prison for eight counts of

I attended a forum on DTE’s Integrated Resource Plan Tuesday. The state’s public service commission, an entity that seems to

I figured I could kick off Detroit Mobility Week with some exploration of a debate currently simmering in my office

Fair warning, folks– this post is borne largely of jetlagged travel musings. I was recently struck by the idea of

The corner of Wyandotte Avenue West and Patricia Road in the west end of Windsor, Ontario, is an odd nexus,

I don’t usually write about gun control, but in this case I’ve found the nationwide response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I’ve made it my mission to read all of the Detroit books. I started with Charlie LeDuff’s sensationalist Detroit: An