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Real Estate Urban Planning Washington, DC

Exploring the New Washington, DC: Edge Urbanism in Edgewood/Brookland

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments brookland, catholic university of america, CUA, dc metro, district of columbia, ebike, eckington, edgewood, electric scooter, forman mills, fort totten, Gentrification, lime, northeast dc, periurban, red line, redeveloping surface parking, redevelopment, rhode island avenue, rock creek, rowhouse, silver spring, streetscaping, supermarket sushi, surface parking, takoma, townhouse, walkable, wardman, wardman rowhouse, washington, Washington DC, washington gas and light

Walking, biking, scootering around northeast DC for a couple of weeks, thinking about the past, present, and future of the neighborhood.

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Energy Efficiency Urban Planning Poverty Affordable housing Energy

MDHHS and LIHEAP: We’ll Pay For Fossil Fuels. Weatherization, Not So Much.

September 2, 2021September 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments Brad Banks, cardi b, CMS energy, coal, coal power, Consumers Energy, DTE, DTE Energy, EE&C, energy efficiency, energy efficiency & conservation, energy waste reduction, fossil fuels, fossil gas, Gretchen Whitmer, LIHEAP, LMI, low to moderate income, low-income, maddy kamalay, michigan, michigan department of health and human services, michigan public service commission, MPSC, Nat Zorach, natural gas, the war on coal, WAP, weatherization assistance program, why is DTE so bad

At an MPSC workgroup meeting this morning on Energy Waste Reduction specifically for the low to moderate income (LMI) market

Urban Planning Mobility Cycling

Google Maps Needs To Do A Better Job Showing Pedestrian Infrastructure.

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bicycle, bike, bike infrastructure, brookland, cycling infrastructure, cyclist fatalities, dc metro, dc metropolitan branch trail, edgewood, jeff speck, mobility, nonmotorized transportation infrastructure, pedestrian bridges, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian infrastructure, rhode island, safe streets, walkability, walking, Washington DC, wmata

Cars take center stage on Google Maps, even when you’re not looking for a driving route. It raises some interesting questions about how maps depict nonmotorized transportation infrastructure.

Real Estate Policy Urban Planning Law

The Morouns Tore Down A Warehouse For More Truck Parking. Really. [EDITED]

July 9, 2021July 14, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments BSEED, building department, city of detroit, city of detroit government, climate change, corktown, criminal negligence, david bell, Detroit, drainage, drainage assessment, duggan, duggan administration, enforcement, flooding, hardscaping, impervious surfaces, industrial slumlords, manuel moroun, matty moroun, Michigan Central Station, mike duggan, moroun, moroun clan, moroun empire, municipal incompetence, pervious surfaces, rain tax, Regulation, slumlords, southwest detroit, southwest solutions, ted bundy, west side industrial

Walking from home to Corktown last night in search of food and drink with some out-of-town visitors who were eager

Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

Dreams of Better Transit Signage. How Legible Is Your City?

June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments advocacy, bus, bus routes, buses, calley wang, camillo sitte, citycraft, dan gilbert, dan gilbert industrial complex, DDOT, detroit department of transportation, jane jacobs, legibility, LRT, martha connell, motor city freedom riders, QLINE, richard sennett, ridership, robert moses, statecraft, transit, transit corridors, transit infrastructure, transit signage, transportation riders united, TRU, urban design, Urban planning

Transit advocacy should necessarily focus on making sure transit systems can be easily accessed. In many cases, that begins with signs to show people where to go.

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.

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