Urban Planning

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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Urban Planning 

YouLam No. 3 – Combat Midwinter Malaise With Good Journalism!

February 19, 2020February 15, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, american society of adaptation professionals, climate leadership conference, coronavirus, Donald Trump, hennessy, housing, jeff bezos, lloyd blankfein, los angeles, minoru yamasaki, neoclassical architecture, prop hhh, startingbloc, trump, youlam

After a long stretch of tepid gloom, winter has hit like the gabbagool. It’s the latest YouLam. Here’s the news:

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Mobility Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

Transportation Bonanza 11: The Rural, The Urban, And The MDOT

February 17, 2020February 20, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments conferences, field trips, green stormwater infrastructure, lansing, mdot, michigan, mobility, planning, stormwater, transit, transportation, transportation engineering, transportation planning, Urban planning

Nat takes a snowy Thursday trip to the capital to attend the Transportation Bonanza in Lansing with other planners, engineers, and nerds.

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Michigan Transit infrastructure 

It’s Not Infrastructure If It’s Just Roads

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments brian calley, Bridge Magazine, gas tax, Gretchen Whitmer, HOV lanes, infrastructure, lee chatfield, matt maddock, michigan, mike shirkey, NUMTOT, public finance, road funding, roads, Sprawl, tolls, transit, transit infrastructure, UN Agenda 21 Globalist Conspiracy, user fees, VMT tax

I spoke with Brian Calley on proposals to fix the damn roads– and to understand whether Republicans might consider transit a good complement.

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Public transit Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

Lessons from Tampa: How Transit Funding Works

February 12, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments capital expenditures, gas tax, local option sales tax, millage, property tax, sales tax, transit, transit funding

Transit funding is a messy topic. This article is a brief primer exploring benefits and drawbacks of various sources.

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Michigan Public transit Transit infrastructure 

RTA Bus vs. a Train Between Ann Arbor and Detroit? (Part 2)

February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, ann arbor, canadian national, canadian pacific, class i railroads, conrail, DDOT, Detroit, farebox recovery ratio, hiawatha, I-75, m-10, marc magliari, mike hicks, milwaukee, rail, RTA, southeast michigan, university of michigan

One of my readers observed that she was a bit bummed out by the “yeah, but it simply can’t work

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Public transit Urban Planning 

Travel Writing: Density, Mobility, and Dreams of a Better New York

February 3, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments brooklyn, Density, historic preservation, hudson yards, manhattan, MTA, new jersey transit, new york city, NJ transit, north jersey, POCACITO, public transit, shwarma, stephen ross, TIF

I spent the long MLK weekend in New York City for some family visits, friend visits, professional prospecting, and some

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Public transit Urban Planning 

State of Transit 2020: A Brooksless Mobility Future Rolls Forward

January 31, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments brooks patterson, dave coulter, DDOT, Detroit, Ford, GM, john good, kristina curtiss, macomb county, megan owens, RTA, SMART, transit, warren evans, wayne county

TRU hosted its annual State of Transit event last night at TechTown. A sumptuous feast was catered. County Executives Warren

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Urban Planning 

Lancaster, PA: As A Small City Thrives, Its Suburbs Founder

January 28, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 1 Comment amazon, cartoon network hotel, economic development, hospitality, hotels, lancaster, mccaskey high school, retail, retail apocalypse, shopping malls, Sprawl, strip malls, urban renewal

On a recent trip back to my hometown, I poked around the eastern suburbs, visiting a friend who had just

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Urban Planning 

YouLam No. 1 – Jan. 28, 2020 Handbuilt News Digest

January 28, 2020January 28, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments coronavirus, healthcare, hudson yards, news, socialized medicine, thunder bay, Toronto, windsor, wuhan coronavirus, youlam

Exciting things are afoot around this globe, as I’m sure you well know, dear reader. This series will be a

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