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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.

Public Health Seattle Tech Urban Planning

Did Cities Ever Need Tech, Anyway? Seattle vs. the Post-COVID Economy

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Amanda Spiegel 0 Comments amazon, coronavirus, covid, crime, homelessness, housing, housing crisis, housing insecurity, housing security, missing middle, public health, seattle, tableau, tech, tech bubble

Long a sleepy seaport town, Seattle was enjoying a fraught, decade-long flirtation with explosive growth– and inequality. Will COVID bust up the party forevermore?

Cycling Environment

Don’t Sleep On Electric Bikes

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 Guest 0 Comments bike commuting, bikes, commuting, cycling, cycling infrastructure, decarbonization, e-bikes, ebikes, electric bikes, electrification, energy, NHTS, policy, radrunner, sustainability

Electric bicycles are a fun, affordable alternative to the motorcar– for commuting

Business & Economics Energy Urban Planning

No, Honey, Oil Isn’t Dead. It’s Just Sleeping.

April 23, 2020April 23, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments cars, commodities, covid, COVID19, enron, futures, gasoline, markets, oil, OPEC, options, petroleum, russia, saudi arabia

Oil ended earlier this week with May futures contracts in the negative. This means that for every barrel of oil

Environment Germany Urban Planning

POCACITO Explores Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Germany

March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments Chloe Maryam Mohr, coal, ecologic institute, Ego:Rex, energiewende, Frankfurt, fuel cells, germany, Jordana Vasquez, max gruenig, nachhaltigkeit, ruhrgebiet

Nat gets a chance to chat with Chloe Maryam Mohr, a Senior Planner with Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, who joined the latest POCACITO cohort for a study tour of Germany’s entrepreneurial ecosystem in sustainability and energy.

Public Health Public transit Transit infrastructure

COVID19 Diaries: Mobility in the Time of the Plague

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments colorado, front range, pueblo, transit

Amid the current COVID19 pandemic, transit agencies face massive shortfalls if their ridership decreases. They also face logistical challenges of spending an extremely limited pot of money on enhanced cleaning protocols.

California Photography Travel Urban Planning

Los Angeles: Beyond The Supreme Reign of the Motorcar

March 16, 2020March 17, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments bianca barragan, buses, congestion, congestion pricing, Curbed LA, echo park, electric vehicles, elijah chiland, LA Metro, lyft, Mike Davis, Streetcars, TOD, trains, transit-oriented development, Uber, YIMBY

The culture of mobility in Los Angeles is still stuck in the single-passenger automotive mindset. But the infrastructure begs to differ.

Climate Policy Transit infrastructure

Climate Leadership Conference: Decarbonizing Transportation, One Electric SUV At A Time?

March 10, 2020March 11, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, climate leadership conference, connected vehicles, decarbonization, electric vehicles, electrical generation, Ford, GM, infrastructure, market transformation, mobility, single-occupant vehicles, transit, transit infrastructure

One recurring theme at last week’s Climate Leadership Conference was the topic of decarbonizing the transportation sector. Transportation accounts for

Art & Design Burgerbanism Profiles Travel Urban Planning

A Night Out in Jessica Cabot’s Los Angeles

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments congestion, fast food, hollywood, jessica cabot, los angeles, Sprawl, sunset boulevard, sunset strip, traffic, walk of fame

Nat tours Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, Sunset Boulevard, and Griffith Observatory with a native Angeleno, and even manages to eat an obscene amount of chili cheese fries.

Travel Urban Planning

Los Angeles Trip: In the Popular Imagination

February 19, 2020February 20, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments apocalyptic fiction, california water wars, channelization, dexter, dystopian fiction, flood control, LA, los angeles, los angeles aqueduct, los angeles river, miami, michael c. hall, six feet under, william mulholland

It’s always interesting to trace the origins of our first imagined memories of unfamiliar places. Stereotypes abound– often unfortunate and

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