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Urban Planning Burgerbanism

Burgerbanism: Telway Hamburgers, the Final Frontier of Southwest Detroit

June 5, 2021June 5, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments burgerbanism, burgurbanism, Detroit, DTW, earl owens, martin rd, martin st detroit, southwest detroit, telway, telway hamburgers

Burgerbanism is an ongoing, however infrequent, series on restaurants and their architectural, economic, and social context in cities. A sticky

“MDOT will be the ultimate decider on all roadway decisions.”

June 2, 2021June 1, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments beaches in detroit, beat the train in detroit, belle isle, belle isle bus, belle isle congestion, belle isle traffic, boats, Detroit, detroit river, detroit yacht club, DNR, EGLE, how to get to belle isle, jefferson bus, mdot, Michigan DNR, Michigan EGLE, state of michigan, summer, summer in detroit, traffic on belle isle

Not quite the Grand Prix yet and we’re already having issues. Can we protect Belle Isle from being clogged by car traffic?

Real Estate Urban Planning Mobility Housing

Greenways, The Ultimate High-Density Corridor Development Tool?

May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments active living, adaptive reuse, affordable housing, AMI, bde maka ska, corridor, corridor development, cycling infrastructure, Density, density bonus, Detroit, displacement, Gentrification, high-density development, housing, housing development, inclusionary zoning, industrial corridors, industrial redevelopment, joe louis greenway, lake calhoun, lake harriet, low-density, luxury rentals, market rate rentals, mid-density, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minneapolis midtown greenway, mixed-income, mixed-use, new construction, nonmotorized infrastructure, nonmotorized transportation, pedestrian infrastructure, real estate, real estate development, recreation, rental housing, safe streets, the out-of-doors, transit corridors, YIMBY

Nat compares the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis to the Joe Louis Greenway in Detroit, which broke ground this past week.

Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

COVID Didn’t Close Roads. Why Is So Much Transit Still Shut Down?

May 13, 2021May 11, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments covid, COVID and transit, COVID safety and transit, COVID19, covid19 diaries, DC, dc metro, is transit safe during COVID, public health, transit, transit safety, washington, Washington DC, wmata

Transit in DC was good! Not great, but good! Buses? A+. Metro? Well, it was a mixed bag.

Urban Planning Tech

NPC21: The Rapid Evolution of Virtual Conferencing

May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2U, aicp, american planning association, apa, avocado toast, big dig, black-eyed susans, boston, city planners, coneflowers, conferences, consulting, consulting engineers, gen z, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, katy shackelford, mail-order MBA, millennial, millennials, national planning conference, npc21, online MBA, parsons brinckerhoff, philadelphia, planners, stardew valley, tareq wafaie, urban planners, vacant lot management, vacant lots, viaduct, wsp, zoomer

Nat is attending the National Planning Conference “in” Boston this week, and reflecting on growth in the planning field alongside leaps and bounds in progress made in virtual conferencing.

Business & Economics Urban Planning Transit infrastructure Infrastructure

Michigan Population Numbers: How Long Before We Just Admit That This Strategy Isn’t Working?

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1837 border war, add lane miles, aging population, big two and a half, chaldeans, chrysler, Congress, congressional seats, fca, fiat chrysler, Ford, ford motor company, funding infrastructure, general motors, GM, Gretchen Whitmer, growth, infrastructure, infrastructure and economic growth, infrastructure investment, japan, level-of-service, matt maddock, mdot, meshawn maddock, michigan, michigan legislature, ohio, population decline, population growth, rail, rail infrastructure, refugees, rightsizing, rightsizing cities, rightsizing infrastructure, shrinking cities, stellantis, tokyo, toledo border war, transit, trucks, trump, US Congress, vmt, vmt reduction, whitmer

The census numbers are in, and we’re unsurprised to learn that population growth is stagnant in parts of the great,

Urban Planning Mobility Infrastructure Tech

Webinar: Tech To Reduce Guesswork for Safer Streets

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon web service, Amazon Web Services, AWS, big tech, break up big tech, breaking up big tech, CASE, cloud computing, congestion, connected, connected autonomous, connected autonomous shared electric, cycling safety, Detroit, distributed structures, elizabeth warren, intelligent transportation systems, intersections, ITS, jeff bezos, jeff bezos rocket ship, joe biden, mobility, pedestrian safety, public safety, redundancy, roadside unit, rsu, safe streets, sensors, smart transportation, switching costs, tony geara, traffic, traffic management, traffic safety

Traffic technology has improved by leaps and bounds in recent decades. While the ultimate solutions to ending traffic violence must come with better street designs and a reduced reliance on single-occupant automobiles, there are some interesting developments in technology that are allowing better modeling to understand driver behavior, intersection safety, and more. We learned about it from a webinar co-hosted by Canadian tech company Miovision.

Book Review – Superconnect: Networks and Weak Links

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments book reviews, greg lockwood, malcolm gladwell, network effects, networking, networks, outliers, platform revolution, richard koch, social networks, superconnect book, superconnecting, superconnector, talking to strangers, weak links, weakest link, you are the weakest link

Richard Koch & Greg Lockwood’s 2010 book “Superconnect” is sort of a Malcolm Gladwell-esque, quick read I came across.

Urban Planning Cities & Urban Planning Tech

Tech Launched A Big Push To Fix Cities. What Happened?

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, affordable housing shortage, airbnb, backyard, ben huh, cavnue, cheezburger, Ford, GM, google, greg lindsay, heavy timber framing, i can haz cheezburger, manufactured housing, manufacturing, memelord, memes, modular housing, nithin vejendla, platform economy, quiet pivot, Richard Florida, samara, sidewalk infrastructure partners, sidewalk labs, silicon valley, social construct, startup, sustainable cities, tech, tech startup, waste, y cities, y combinator, Y-Combinator, yc

Sidewalk Labs (Google), AirBnB, and Y Combinator all launched ambitious initiatives to build the technologically advanced, equitable, sustainable cities of tomorrow. What happened?

Urban Planning Mobility

Book Review – Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

February 4, 2021February 3, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, anthony townsend, ArgoAI, artificial intelligence, Autonomous, autonomous vehicles, AV, AV tech, AVs, BRT, car culture, cars, connected cities, connected vehicles, cruise automation, distribution, driving, Ford, fulfillment, fulfillment centers, GM, infrastructure, infrastructure deficit, infrastructure spending, integrated, jeff bezos, jeff bezos skull keg party, lidar, machine learning, microsprawl, public transit, self-driving, self-driving car, self-driving cars, smart cities, smart city, tech bro, tech bros, transit, trucks

Can autonomous cars save us? Well, no, but they can provide some vital innovation to our society. Provided we play our cards right, that is. Anthony Townsend’s book gives us the lowdown.

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