flooding - The Handbuilt City

Want To Municipalize Your Utility? I Mean, Really?

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate change, detroit edison, distribution, DTE, DTE Energy, feeder, feeder lines, flooding, generation mix, grid, jerry norcia, miso, miso grid, municipalization, power generation, power grid, public utility, renewables, severe weather, southeast michigan, storms, thunderstorms, transmission, underground utility lines, undergrounding, undergrounding utilities, weather and utilities

DTE Energy is a disaster, as evidenced by its continued embrace of fossil fuels and its apocalypse-level outages. That doesn’t mean that a public option could do better. But there are some options for improving.

Transit infrastructure Ecology Streetscaping

Greener Streets, Safer Streets: Less Flooding Through Better Transportation Infrastructure

July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments albedo, bioretention, bioswale, black locust, buffer, climate, climate adaptation, climate change, climate resilience, detroit flooding, detroit street grid, flooding, floodwater, floodwaters, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, hardscaping, impervious, mdot, MDOT engineers, pervious, rain, rainwater, rainwater detention, rainwater retention, resilient, resilient infrastructure, riparian buffer, road engineering, safe streets, shade trees, storms, street grid, street grids, street trees, streets, traffic calming, urban heat island, vision zero, water infiltration, water treatment, weather, woonerf

In the aftermath of a catastrophic flooding event a few weeks ago, Detroiters cleaned out their basements of water-damaged and

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

Adaptation & Resilience Climate Infrastructure

Farewell, Arecibo: The Need For Climate-Resilient Infrastructure

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments adaptation, arecibo, arecibo observatory, arecibo radio telescope, astrophysics, carl sagan, climate change, dam collapse, edenville dam, extreme weather, flooding, goldeneye, henry flagler, hurricanes, jodie foster, overseas railroad, pierce brosnan, puerto rico, radio astronomy, radio telescope, resilience, sanford dam, sean bean, st. francis dam, tacoma narrows bridge, teton dam, tom skerritt, william fichtner

The collapse of the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico highlights the gradual attrition of American leadership in science, and the failure of an entire generation of political leadership– in both parties- to address the increasingly grave threats of climate change.

Cities & Urban Planning Environment

April Showers Bring May Combined Sewer Overflows

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments climate adaptation, climate change, combined sewer overflow, CSO, Detroit, drainage, flooding, french drain, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, home rehab, rainfall, Renovation, stormwater

I woke up several times last night to the sound of torrential rain drumming on the roof. The attic roof