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Urban Planning Culture & Language Transit infrastructure Germany

Germans Have At Least 7 Words For Train Stations. Because Of Course They Do.

May 15, 2023May 15, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments angie schmitt, bahnsteig, bvg, db, deutsche bahn, Durchgangsbahnhof, english, german, germany, Gleiswechselbetriebsstelle, Hochgeschwindigkeitszug, Inselbahnsteig, kopfbahnhof, language, linguistics, seitenbahnsteig, Spitzkehrenbahnhof, subway, train platform, train station design, train stations, trains, transit, u-bahn

Fahrkarte, bitte! We’re going on a lingusitic-infrastructural journey to learn about how infrastructure thinking is baked into the very language we use to describe it.

Culture & Language Public Art

Unto The Flame: Managing A Literal Dumpster Fire

January 12, 2021January 11, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2020, andy didorosi, arsenal of clean, basecamp, basecamp software, coding, coronavirus, COVID19, detroit bus company, dumpster fire, dumpsterfire, gaming, hey email, jair bolsonaro, language, linguistics, software, translation, winter

The end of 2020 (and my second-to-last-ever quarter in school) provided a good opportunity to think about all of the awful things we wanted to send off into the fire– literally.

Cadastral Projection Urban Planning

Cadastral Projection: Exploration In The Time of the Rona

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments cadastral projection, cadastral survey, chicago, coastal chauvinism, eclipse records, first avenue, great chicago fire, grid, grids, hildegard binder johnson, i hate you thomas jefferson, land survey, language, linda mcnair, matterport, midwest, midwestern, midwestern culture, minneapolis, minnesota, ohio, order upon the land, seven ranges, square, st. paul, steeple square, thomas jefferson

Cadastral Projection is a new series using the Matterport platform to catalogue and explore spaces.

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.

Canada Trip II – Montréal and Language

September 17, 2019September 27, 2019 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments culture, french, language, montreal, quebec, quebecois, rene levesque

I arrived punctually in Montreal, relatively un-traumatized from a twelve hour train trip. I fell asleep for a power nap