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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

Movements & Organizing Government Law

“I Thought It Would Be Worse,” said a Detroit cop of a protest last year. “I Wanted More.”

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments black lives matter, chief james craig, civil rights, CS, Detroit, detroit east side, detroit mayor mike duggan, detroit police, detroit police chief james craig, detroit police department, detroit west side, detroit will breathe, documentary, federal lawsuit, george floyd, george floyd protests, george gorman, gratiot avenue, james craig, james demps, jon talbert, kate levy, kate levy documentarian, lawsuit, less lethal bullets, litigation, mariah erard, mayor mike duggan, mcnichols rd, mike duggan, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police violence, riot control, riot gear, rosa parks transit center, rubber bullets, tear gas, todd bettison

CONTENT WARNING: The 22-minute video and the clips I’ve taken from it below include some disturbing and extremely graphic imagery,

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.

Public Safety Infrastructure Small Business Streetscaping

New Grand River Streetscaping: Safer, Slower, Greener

May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bike lanes, black-owned business, crosswalk, crosswalks, Detroit, effect of streetscaping on public safety, garden stores, gardening, gardening store, gilmour garden tools, grand army of the republic building detroit, grand river, grand river avenue, grandmont-rosedale, highland park, home depot, local business, maumee lake region, native plants, neighborhood investment, north rosedale park, pages bookshop, pedestrian safety, public safety, raised crosswalks, street safety, streetscaping and public safety, tina castleberry, traffic violence

New streetscaping improvements have turned portions of Grand River Avenue, on Detroit’s West Side, from a street-level freeway into something more closely resembling a real city street that people might be able to safely hang out and shop on.

Public Safety Transit infrastructure

Morning Coffee, Detroit Traffic: The Post-COVID Craze Is About To Be Wild

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, bicycle safety, bike safety, car culture, cars, cycling infrastructure, cycling safety, Detroit, detroit police, detroit river, detroit traffic, dodge challenger, dodge charger, dodge durango, driving, gratiot, hi-riser, infrastructure, jeep, Mikki Taylor-Hendrix, nonmotorized infrastructure, pedestrian safety, riverfront park, traffic violence, west riverfront park, why do people always rev their dodge charger

Yesterday, Detroit was a whole traffic jam, as an increasingly vaccinated cross-section of, well, everyone, emerged from the cocoons of Michigan winter and lockdowns.

Urban Planning Mobility Infrastructure Tech

Webinar: Tech To Reduce Guesswork for Safer Streets

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon web service, Amazon Web Services, AWS, big tech, break up big tech, breaking up big tech, CASE, cloud computing, congestion, connected, connected autonomous, connected autonomous shared electric, cycling safety, Detroit, distributed structures, elizabeth warren, intelligent transportation systems, intersections, ITS, jeff bezos, jeff bezos rocket ship, joe biden, mobility, pedestrian safety, public safety, redundancy, roadside unit, rsu, safe streets, sensors, smart transportation, switching costs, tony geara, traffic, traffic management, traffic safety

Traffic technology has improved by leaps and bounds in recent decades. While the ultimate solutions to ending traffic violence must come with better street designs and a reduced reliance on single-occupant automobiles, there are some interesting developments in technology that are allowing better modeling to understand driver behavior, intersection safety, and more. We learned about it from a webinar co-hosted by Canadian tech company Miovision.

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.

Mobility Cycling

Strava’s Heat Map Makes The Case For Safer Streets.

March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments Detroit, GPS tracking, grosse pointe, location data, nonmotorized infrastructure, safe mobility, safe streets, safer streets, safety, strava, strava cycling, strava heat map, strava running

Dion Thompson-Davoli showed us his Strava Heat Map of Detroit. It’s exactly as you would expect– showing a gaping hole of activity in most of the city proper.

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