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MDOT: Rebrand And Replace. Some Ideas From The MAP Conference.

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments aicp, ambassador bridge, american planning association, auto industry, automotive, car culture, cars, chrysler, dan gilbert, dan gilbert industrial complex, EGLE, f150 super duty state of mind, Ford, ford motor company, fossil fuel subsidies, fossil fuels, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, highways, land of the rising f150 super duty, mami, MAP, matty moroun, MDEQ, mdot, MEDC, MEGA tax breaks, michigan, michigan association of planning, mike duggan, moroun, public transit, rick snyder, road, stellantis, transit, vehicle miles traveled, vmt, vmt reduction, wendy rampson

Nat is attending the Michigan Association of Planning’s annual conference. It’s going great– especially with regard to figuring out new ways to refashion state agencies that aren’t doing their jobs.

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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

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If Not Now, When? Detroit Flooding Raises Questions.

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate adaptation, climate change, combined sewer, combined sewer overflow, detroit flooding, detroit water and sewerage department, drainage tax, duggan administration, dwsd, flood, flood insurance, floods, gary brown, gary brown is a cop, glwa, green infrastructure, green new deal, green stormwater infrastructure, infrastructure hardening, insurance, june 2021 storms, market solutions, rain tax, sewage, sewer, sewers, stormwater, stormwater infrastructure, stormwater management, stormwater retention

Widespread flooding across Metro Detroit has left basements filled with water, backed up sewage, and has left homeowners with questions about what the state and city have been doing, if not preparing our infrastructure for climate change.

Urban Planning Tech

NPC21: The Rapid Evolution of Virtual Conferencing

May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2U, aicp, american planning association, apa, avocado toast, big dig, black-eyed susans, boston, city planners, coneflowers, conferences, consulting, consulting engineers, gen z, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, katy shackelford, mail-order MBA, millennial, millennials, national planning conference, npc21, online MBA, parsons brinckerhoff, philadelphia, planners, stardew valley, tareq wafaie, urban planners, vacant lot management, vacant lots, viaduct, wsp, zoomer

Nat is attending the National Planning Conference “in” Boston this week, and reflecting on growth in the planning field alongside leaps and bounds in progress made in virtual conferencing.