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Energy Efficiency Sustainability Energy

Detroit Rallies The 2030 Districts

October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2030 district, 2030 districts, Detroit, energy, energy benchmarking, green building alliance, guardian building, pittsburgh, sustainability

Last night, I had the opportunity to attend a happy hour event sponsored by Detroit’s 2030 District, one of 26

End of an Era: Fall of the Last Holdout Against the Little Caesars Arena

August 9, 2022August 9, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amy fisher price, cass corridor, Detroit, ilitch family, little caesars, Little Caesars Arena, midtown, mike illitch, olympia, olympia development, scheherazade, shell companies, terrible illitches

A “mysterious” fire gutted what was perhaps the last holdout against a parking lot empire on which the sun will never set.

Detroit Book Reviews Mobility Sustainability Climate Michigan

Book Review: Women Driven Mobility by Katelyn Davis and Kristin Shaw

April 26, 2022April 25, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate change, decarbonization, Detroit, Electric cars, electric vehicles, electrification, emily wasley, fisker, Gretchen Whitmer, jessica robinson, karma, katelyn davis, kristin shaw, lordstown, michigan, mobility, nikola, Tesla, transportation decarbonization, transportation electrification, TSLA, women-driven mobility, wsp

Nat looks at a new book by Katelyn Davis and Kristin Shaw about women in the mobility and transportation space, and asks whether a politics of benevolent incrementalism is going to help us solve the climate crisis.

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Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

Into Exurban Oblivion: Auburn Hills Mulls Ditching Transit Service

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Guest 0 Comments auburn hills, bus, bus ridership, buses, calley wang, chrysler, DaimlerChrysler, DDOT, Detroit, divergent diamond, diverging diamond, editorial, farebox recovery ratio, fca, FCAU, fiat chrysler, Flint MTA, Ford, general motors, great lakes crossing, how is transit funded, mdot, michigan department of road engineering, michigan department of transportation, Nat Zorach, nimbyism, public transit, retrofitting the suburbs, ridership, RTA, rta michigan, SMART, stellantis, suburban transit, the handbuilt city, transit, transit funding, transit millage, transportation, Urban planning

In one of the farthest-north suburbs of Detroit, a municipality’s elected representatives are discussing the possibility of eliminating fixed-route transit, which has the support of an overwhelming percentage of the electorate, to save around $800,000 per year. In this guest co-editorial, Calley Wang and Nat Zorach argue that this is a really, really terrible idea.

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Detroit Labor Public transit

Recharging the Aquifer Underneath Detroit’s Transit Desert

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Martha Connell 0 Comments DDOT, ddot cuts, ddot detroit, ddot driver shortage, ddot funding, ddot routes, Detroit, duggan, duggan administration, economic development, labor, metro detroit, michigan, QLINE, regional transit authority, regioonal transit authority, RTA, rta michigan, rta millage, SMART, transit, transit service, wages

Martha Connell looks at some hard questions about the future of Detroit’s transit.

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“Detroit: Become Livonia” – Mike Duggan

December 15, 2021December 15, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon warehouses, amc, amc building, american motors, american motors corporation, appliance manufacturing, auto project, Behrouz Rashidinejad, BSEED, Detroit, detroit mayor mike duggan, duggan, duggan regime, flex-n-gate, garbage aliens, industry cluster, industry clusters, junkyard, junkyards, kelvinator, mayor mike duggan, mike duggan, nash motors, nash-kelvinator, northpoint, Paul Jones III, paul the urbanist, paultheurbanist, ruin porn, sakthi automotive, scrapyard, star trek voyager garbage aliens

Detroit’s mayor has a vision for the city. It involves a lot of parking lots, and a lot of low-wage jobs. But there’s a better way.

Detroit Politics

Mike Duggan’s Legacy of Austerity, Corporate Power, and State Violence

November 1, 2021November 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments albert cobo, arthur jemison, black lives matter, black lives matter protest, black lives matter protests, BSEED, coleman young, DDOT, dennis archer, Detroit, detroit 2021 election, detroit department of transportation, detroit mayor mike duggan, detroit politics, detroit proposal r, detroit proposal s, detroit towing scandal, gaspar fiore, housing and revitalization department, james craig, jed howbert, jerome kavanagh, kwame kilpatrick, mayoral election detroit, mike duggan, mikel oglesby, politics, related, related companies, ryan friedrichs, stephen ross, tear gas

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is inevitably coasting to an easy reëlection tomorrow. His legacy is a complex and a fraught one– that deserves a lot of critical scrutiny, in spite of the big moves that the city has made in the past decade.

Art & Design Culture & Language Lifestyle

Womxn House Envisions Future for Artists, Gender on Detroit’s West Side

October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments art galleries, art gallery, art installation, art installations, artist residencies, artist residency, artwork, asia hamilton, covid, COVID19, covid19 pandemic, creative, Detroit, detroit artists, detroit west side, erin gold, erin gold artist, fenkell, gender, gender pay disparity, glass ceiling, grand river, judy chicago, laura earle, miriam schapiro, norwest gallery of art, pandemic, west side, womanhouse, women, womxn house

Erin Gold gives a talk on her stained glass installation work at a new artist residency and gallery space at Womxn House, a home on the west side of Detroit.

Affordable housing Housing

Detroit Landlords Sue The Court– For Not Evicting Tenants Fast Enough

August 16, 2021August 17, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 36th district court, affordable housing, Detroit, detroit evictions, eviction moratorium, evictions, housing security, law, lawsuit, mayor mike duggan, mike duggan

A class action lawsuit, filed today in Detroit, alleges that the 36th District Court violated the US Constitution by “depravation

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

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