Detroit

Movements & Organizing Public Health Public Safety 

A Tale Of Two Protests

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments 1a, 2a, black lives matter, chief craig, demonstrations, Detroit, economic justice, gun rights, guns, LGBTQ, LGBTx, mike duggan, pride, protest, protesters, protests, second amendment, social justice, St. Louis

We sure have seen it all in 2020. An impeachment trial. A global pandemic. Climate change. Genocide. Murder hornets. A

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Detroit Public Safety 

No Tear Gas at Sixth Night of Protests in Detroit; Journalists Again Assaulted

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments ACLU, breonna taylor, chief craig, city of detroit, civil rights, Constitutional rights, Detroit, detroit police department, downtown detroit, DPD, east side, george floyd, gratiot, james craig, protest, public safety

While last night’s protest ended relatively peacefully, with no tear gas or rubber bullets, assaults of journalists continued in a troubling trend.

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Adaptation & Resilience Business & Economics 

Anecdotes from The Alleged Retail Apocalypse

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments big box, big box retail, black lives matter, consumer spending, coronavirus, cottage industry, covid, COVID19, Detroit, detroit economy, hardware, hardware stores, local economy, protests, retail, retail apocalypse, retail economy, supply chain, supply chains

Is retail dead? Probably not. Big box retail, though, may need to rethink some things.

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Adaptation & Resilience Events 

Climate Leadership Conference in Detroit

March 4, 2020March 3, 2020 admin 0 Comments climate adaptation, climate leadership conference, conferences, Detroit, events, kim cobb, rivian, sustainability, william k. reilly

Today, tomorrow, and Friday, I’ll be attending the Climate Leadership Conference in Detroit. The conference will bring together practitioners working

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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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Environment Photography 

Travels and Travails in the Downriver Smog

February 10, 2020February 9, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments allen park, arcelor mittal, capitalization, delray, Detroit, downriver, DTE Energy, ESG, krispy kreme, lincoln park, marathon petroleum, marathon refinery, MPC, nucor, rashida tlaib, river rouge, rouge river, violations, X, Zug Island

US Steel’s closure of its two Downriver plants raise the question of the future of the polluted areas around the x217 and x219 ZIP codes.

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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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Public transit Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

RTA: Intercity Bus Service between Detroit and Ann Arbor, Coming To A Southeast Michigan Near You

January 9, 2020January 13, 2020 Nat Zorach 1 Comment ann arbor, BRT, Detroit, intercity bus, LRT, michigan connector, michigan flyer, public transit, public-private partnership, RTA, SMART, southeast michigan, southeast michigan area rapid transit

Often discussed in conversations about regional transit expansion in Southeast Michigan is the idea of a high-speed rail connection between

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Burgerbanism Urban Planning 

Burgerbanism: The Twelve Dishes Of Detroit Christmas

December 23, 2019December 23, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments bangladeshi, black-owned business, dearborn, Detroit, dime store, downtown detroit, food, hamtramck, ima detroit, livernois corridor, livernois streetscaping, michigan avenue, ottava via, peso bar, rock city eatery, sheeba, som tam, southwest detroit, yemeni

At the risk of seeming like all I do is think about parking lots and protected bike lanes (which, admittedly,

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Parking Urban Planning 

Detroit Park City No. 5 – Crossing The Post Office Desert of West Fort Street

December 16, 2019December 17, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments Detroit, detroit park city, Detroit riverfront, detroit street grid, fort street, jefferson avenue, parking, riverfront, USPS, wayne county community college

One of the interesting things about Detroit’s built environment is the hub-and-spoke street layout. There are multiple, conflicting street grids,

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