Business & Economics Archives - The Handbuilt City

James Brown Feels Good (About Weatherization)

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ACH50, air leakage testing, ben dueweke, blower door, branding, building envelope, depressurization, energy efficiency, energy justice, funk, funky, funky president, get up offa that thing, i feel good, i got you, james brown, Kevin McNeely, make it funky, manometer, marketing, mcneely building group, minneapolis blower door, pressurization, RESNET, retrotec, retrotec blower door, sex machine, usgbc, walker-miller energy services

One of the weirder things I’ve come across in the past year– apart from Soviet Cookiemonster, our second-most viewed post

Finance Book Reviews Urban Planning Finance

Book Review: The Firm – The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business (2014)

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments american express, anil kumar, AT&T, bain, Business School, citibank, consulting, duff mcdonald, finance, harvard business school, IBM, intel, james mckinsey, james oscar mckinsey, management consulting, mckinsey, mckinsey & company, merrill lynch, mitt romney, pete buttigieg, raj rajaratnam, rajat gupta, south bend

MCKINSEY. EVERY B-SCHOOL BRO KNOWS THE NAME. Many more Americans learned the name after facing the presidential prospects of a

Business & Economics Book Reviews Urban Planning Data & Analytics

Book Review: Leading with AI and Analytics

January 5, 2021January 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments AI, AI & analytics, AIA, analytics, artificial intelligence, b-school, business analytics, business intelligence, Business School, Data Science, Data Science IQ, data scientist, decision tree, decision trees, DSIQ, eric anderson, florian zettelmeyer, gradient boosting, kellogg, kellogg school, kellogg school of management, machine learning, management theory, MBA, multiple regression, neural network, northwestern, northwestern university, OLAP, OLTP, predictive analytics, qualitative, quantitative, R, random forest, regression, SQL, statistics, XGBoost, zettelmeyer

Nat reviews a new book, Leading with AI and Analytics: Build Your Data Science IQ to Drive Business Value, by Eric Anderson and Florian Zettelmeyer of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School.

Business & Economics Urban Planning Burgerbanism Public Health

Outdoor Dining? This Is A Building With Four Walls And A Roof!

December 14, 2020January 4, 2021 Luo Yang 0 Comments accessory commercial unit, accessory structures, cafe gulistan, covid, COVID and outdoor dining, COVID and restaurants, COVID in restaurants, COVID outdoor dining, COVID safety, detroit shipping company, dining, eastern market, eastern market brewing company, eastern market detroit, harbert michigan, IAQ, IAQ and covid, indoor air quality, james hamblin, new york, new york city, outdoor dining, pizzaplex, restaurants, riopelle, solo stove, temporary structures

Restauranteurs are finding it hard to figure out how to adapt to the winter months.

Sustainability Poverty Energy Housing Utilities

MPSC December Meeting: Neighborhood-Level Equity and Energy

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, Brad Banks, Briana Parker, CMS, Consumers Energy, Detroit, DTE Energy, economic justice, Elevate Energy, energy, energy justice, housing, Indiana Michigan Power, mary templeton, metro detroit, michigan, michigan public service commission, MPSC, public utilties, racial justice, racism, redlining, SEAS, segregation, SEMCO, Sharonda Williams-Tack, Sierra Club, Tim Skrotzki, Tony G. Reames, Tony Reames, utilities, water justice

Dr. Tony G. Reames of the University of Michigan, Briana Parker of Elevate Energy, and others presented at an MPSC meeting on some approaches to the question of equity in energy efficiency for low-income communities and communities of color.

Policy Poverty Utilities

Facing A Crisis of COVID, Evictions, and Utility Shutoffs

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments CARES, covid, COVID19, energy audits, energy efficiency, energy insecurity, energy poverty, eviction defense, eviction diversion, evictions, housing insecurity, legal aid, maureen taylor, michigan, michigan welfare rights organization, Poverty, PUA, public utilities, UCHC, united community housing coalition, utility, utility bills, utility policy, weatherization

COVID19 is exposing a particularly ugly nexus between energy insecurity and housing insecurity, referred to in a few separate presentations at a recent workgroup meeting of the Michigan Public Service Commission.

Entrepreneurship Burgerbanism Food

Yum Village Will Bring The Fire In Detroit’s Takeout Dining Scene This Winter

November 5, 2020November 5, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments afro-caribbean, APX interactive, art deco, black-owned business, COVID19, crowdfunding, Detroit, economic development, entrepreneurship, food, godwin ihentuge, joe robinson, milwaukee junction, new center, nigeria, north end, restaurants, storefronts, we run 313, yum village

Experience all three dimensions of Yum Village– and then get you some jerk chicken.

Art & Design Business & Economics Culture & Language

The Record Store Slash Venue: A Quaint, Necessary Reminder of Pre-COVID Times

October 7, 2020October 5, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bands, cassette tapes, concerts, DRM, filesharing, minneapolis, minnesota, music, music industry, music venues, musicians, napster, p2p, performance, record stores, records, shows, st. paul, streaming, streaming services, theaters, venues, vinyl

In St. Paul, after imaging Afro Deli, I stopped into Eclipse Records, a mainstay of the Twin Cities retail music

Business & Economics Historic preservation Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

Detroit Fairgrounds Site: Alternatives to Permanent, Monumentally Bad Decisions

October 6, 2020October 5, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 8 mile, adaptive reuse, brooks patterson, brownfield, dave coulter, DDOT, Density, Detroit, duggan, economic development, eight mile, francis grunow, historic preservation, mike duggan, preservation, QLINE, redevelopment, RTA, SMART, state fairgrounds, state fairgrounds site, transit, transit infrastructure, woodward, woodward avenue

The State Fairgrounds site is centrally located, and it’s huge. Too huge to make some monumentally bad decisions about permanently turning it into a Shelby Township-style strip mall.

Business & Economics Culture & Language Iowa

Postcards from Des Moines: A Trip To RAYGUN

October 5, 2020October 4, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments clothing, coastal chauvinism, des moines, entrepreneurship, midwest, midwestern, panmidwestern, raygun, startup, t-shirt, t-shirts

Returning from Minneapolis and on a roundabout, triangular route to Dubuque, I stopped into RAYGUN, the Midwest’s favorite t-shirt shop,

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