iowa - The Handbuilt City

Year-End Wrap-Up: Internal Business Operations

December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accounting, adrianne kolano, afro deli, aki's bread haus, business, cash flow, cash flow statement, chris olson, david hilbert, des moines, duane hagerty, dubuque, eclipse records, FASB, financial statement, GAAP, gabby coll, grant, grants, IFRS, income statement, iowa, justin brown, justin ströhm, juxtaposition arts, kurt dahlin, liberapay, linda mcnair, luo yang, matterport, minneapolis, minnesota, nonprofits, omar reyes, patreon, profit, profit & loss, raju rayavarapu, raygun, revenue, st. paul, taxes, tim swaddling, vishva nalamalapu, year-end financial statement, yum village, zoe hoster

We are committed to 100% transparency! Read our year-end financial summary.

Historic preservation Culture & Language Travel

Postcards from Dubuque: Then and Now

October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments american history, anamosa, culture, dubuque, fox, gujarati hotel mafia, historic preservation, iowa, language, meskwaki, mississippi, native and indigenous peoples, quebec, quebecois, sac, sauk, upper mississippi, us history

A parable of delicious mini-donuts and– stories about those who came before the mini-donuts.

Historic preservation Iowa Parks and Public Space

Dubuque’s Eagle Point Park: Alfred Caldwell’s Unsung Masterpiece

October 8, 2020October 14, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alfred caldwell, burnham plan, chicago, chicagoland, chris olson, city beautiful, daniel burnham, duane hagerty, dubuque, garden city, green space, heritage works, iowa, jens jensen, mississippi, park, parks, prairie, prairie school, public parks, public space, steeple square, upper mississippi

Nat tours Eagle Point Park with Dubuque city planner Chris Olson and Heritage Works’ Duane Hagerty.

Adaptation & Resilience Climate Environment

Land Hurricanes, Resilient Design, And Other Stuff To Think About

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate, climate change, climate resilience, construction, derecho, extreme weather, grinnell, ICF, iowa, midwest, panelized construction, residential construction, resilience, storms, weather, wind, wind resistance

Extreme weather, like the recent derecho storm that ripped through Iowa, is exposing the fragility of the built environment. Fortunately, in thinking about how to protect ourselves, we have the ability to combine human technological ingenuity with the systems nature already built.

Cycling

RAGBRAI 2017!

July 24, 2017 Nat Zorach 0 Comments cycling, iowa, ragbrai

This week, I am riding RAGBRAI, Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, after talking about doing it for the