Nat Zorach, Author at The Handbuilt City

Handbuilt Summer Reading List

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments accounting, banking, black capitalism, books, capitalism, corporations, culture, economic justice, fractional reserve banking, free market, markets, neoliberalism, policy, private equity, racial justice, reading, reading list, reading lists

Okay. You’re locked down, quarantined, or unemployed. Stop scrolling mindlessly through the feed and read! It’s a great opportunity to

Art & Design Poverty Movements & Organizing

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

Public Health Public Safety Movements & Organizing

A Tale Of Two Protests

June 29, 2020July 27, 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

A screaming couple brandished guns at St. Louis protesters walking past their mansion, while in Detroit, a bootstrapped protest roused a multiethnic, LGBTx crowd to bike around Southwest Detroit.

Energy Efficiency Historic preservation Construction

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.

Public Safety Gun Control Movements & Organizing

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.

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

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.

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.

Business & Economics Adaptation & Resilience

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.

Politics Public Safety

Statement on the May 30, 2020 Detroit Protests

May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments black lives matter, BLM, civil unrest, demonstrations, detroit police department, DPD, george floyd, police, police brutality, protesters, protests, public safety

Last night at a protest over the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd, Detroit riot police teargassed and pepper sprayed protesters– and members of the media.

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