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Will California Get Out Of Its Own Way?

February 6, 2023February 5, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments Accessory dwelling unit, accessory dwelling units, ADU, adus, bay area, california, california housing crisis, california housing prices, cities, densification, Density, exclusionary zoning, granny flats, housing, housing development, population density, san jose, sb9, subdivision, Urban planning

Zoning reform has become a flashpoint for political debate in the United States. While it intuitively seems like it would

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Urban Planning

Handbuilt Votes 2022: Urbanism At The Ballot Box

November 2, 2022November 2, 2022 Guest 0 Comments ballot measure, ballotpedia, boulder county, california, charlie leduff, detroit news, fresno county, funding buses, Gretchen Whitmer, gulf coast, hillsborough county, infrastructure funding, karen jaroch, kristina karamo, new hanover county, orange county florida, orlando, qanon, san francisco, smart cities dive, southeast michigan, suburbs, tampa, transit, transit funding, transit millage, transit vote, transportation, vote on transit funding

Three counties in Southeast Michigan will vote on transit funding next week. There are also a number of other transit and infrastructure-related votes around the country.

Business & Economics Book Reviews

Book Review – Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, by Emily Chang

February 13, 2021February 13, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments apple, big tech, bloomberg, bloomberg technology, breaking up the boys' club of silicon valley, brotopia, california, childcare, dot-com, dot-com bubble, drugs, emily chang, emily chang bloomberg, employer-provided childcare, fairchild semiconductor, google, heteropatriarchy, intel, misogyny, monogamy, patriarchy, robert noyce, rock and roll, sex, sexism, silicon valley, trilogy, Uber

A few weeks ago, I finished Emily Chang’s Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, which came out

Adaptation & Resilience Climate

Climate Change Is Here, And Boy Is It Ever Expensive!

September 5, 2020September 5, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments california, california wildfires, climate adaptation, climate change, climate resilience, florida, hurricane, hurricane harvey, hurricane laura, hurricane maria, hurricanes, resilience, resiliency

If we fail to push for market transformation oriented toward climate adaptation solutions, the market will do it on its own. Like, in a really bad way. This has the unintended consequence, however, of incentivizing better decisions about development and planning.

Urban Planning Affordable housing

Sorry, Tim– Pocket Change Can’t Fix Suburbia.

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, apple, BART, bay area, big tech, california, Density, google, high-speed rail, mountain view, palo alto, regional planning, san jose, sunnyvale, transit, YIMBY, Zoning

Apple just announced that it’s committing a bunch of money to housing development in the Bay Area. That’s good, right?!