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Urban Planning Culture & Language Transit infrastructure Germany

Germans Have At Least 7 Words For Train Stations. Because Of Course They Do.

May 15, 2023May 15, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments angie schmitt, bahnsteig, bvg, db, deutsche bahn, Durchgangsbahnhof, english, german, germany, Gleiswechselbetriebsstelle, Hochgeschwindigkeitszug, Inselbahnsteig, kopfbahnhof, language, linguistics, seitenbahnsteig, Spitzkehrenbahnhof, subway, train platform, train station design, train stations, trains, transit, u-bahn

Fahrkarte, bitte! We’re going on a lingusitic-infrastructural journey to learn about how infrastructure thinking is baked into the very language we use to describe it.

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Our Top Ten Scariest Things In Urbanism This Halloween

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accessibility, amy coney barrett, angie schmitt, brett kavanaugh, clarence thomas, climate change, dave staudt, department of transportation, dot, emergency management, epa, epa ruling on carbon dioxide, fossil fuel crunch, fossil fuels, Gretchen Whitmer, halloween, halloween party, itaetwon, itaetwon tragedy, jeff bezos, matt maddock, media platforms, meshawn maddock, michigan proposal 3, neil gorsuch, noah balanda, oakland county gop, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian safety, safe streets, safety, seoul, shane trejo, smart millage, supreme court, twitter, white supremacists

Halloween is a spooky time of year. Know what else is spooky? Well, we have a list of ten things– which we meticulously compiled while wearing our costumes in the war room of Handbuilt Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Urban Planning Mobility Public Safety

Washington, DC’s Big Car Tax Is A Novel, Necessary Approach To Traffic Fatalities.

June 7, 2022June 7, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments angie schmitt, automobiles, bloomberg, cars, complete streets, cyclist fatalities, david zipper, dc vision zero, department of transportation, district of columbia, dmv, dot, florida, high and mighty, keith bradsher, mdot, muriel bowser, pedestrian fatalities, public safety, rate of pedestrian fatalities, right of way, safe streets, street safety, streets, vision zero, warshington, warshington dc, Washington DC, we've got a delegation, why is food in dc so expensive

Pedestrian and cyclist safety has a new potential ally in the form of an annual registration tax for huge, heavy cars.

Policy Public Safety

Police Reform: Imagining New Roles For A Safer, More Functional Society

April 23, 2021April 23, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1312, abolish the police, acab, angie schmitt, austerity, black lives matter, BSEED, budgets, building department, building inspections, building inspector, building officials, community engagement, community meetings, cycling, cycling safety, dave bell, defund the police, democracy, Detroit, detroit police chief james craig, detroit police department, detroit will breathe, fuck the police, james craig, jessica parker, legal aid, municipal budgets, municipal government, nonmotorized transportation, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian safety, police, police abolition, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police departments, police reform, policing in the united states, prison abolition, prison reform, public funding, reform the police, safe mobility, safe streets, social justice, social safety net, social welfare, social work, social worker, social workers, traffic safety, traffic violence

We expect police to respond to, well, everything. And they’re not suited for it. Rethinking policing in the United States will require us to figure out alternatives for who is responding to what issue.