Nat Zorach, Author at The Handbuilt City

The other day (awhile ago, sorry about the delay), I deviated from my morning routine and took the hound down

Making Detroit Great Again– Through More Surface Parking

Well, this is awful. Today, developer Emmett Moten began demolition of the Detroit Saturday Night Building. This will give him

It’s easy to go from the decaying infrastructure of a city like Detroit to a cleaner, more prosperous city like

Yesterday morning, whilst on a stroll ’round the snowy neighborhood with the hounds, I listened to Laura Lynch on The

Loneliness. Failures of civic engagement. A lacking sense of place. These are things that are often not discussed together. They’re

The Ambassador Bridge, or, Moroun’s Folly, as I call her, is 90 years young today. We commemorate this iconic landmark–

I’ve had a persistent respiratory something or other for a solid two and a half weeks now. I’m a healthy

I woke up to a particularly fun article from Business Insider. I had slept well. But I had a dream

Mike Duggan’s latest proposal to “eliminate blight” includes a proposed $250 million bond issue to finance his ongoing demolition program,

Apple just announced that it’s committing a bunch of money to housing development in the Bay Area. That’s good, right?!