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Taxpayers Spend Hundreds of Millions Per Year On Police Brutality Settlements. That Money Could Be Better Spent.

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 538, 911, 911 calls, amelia thomson-deveaux, black lives matter, corktown, damini sharma, Detroit, detroit will breathe, detroit will breathe lawsuit, fivethirtyeight, hulk hogan gawker lawsuit, hulk hogan lawsuit, laura bronner, lawsuit, lawsuits, litigation, nate silver, new york city, nonviolent crimes, police abolition, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police lawsuits, police reform, police violence, police violence lawsuits, settlement, settlements, springfield mass, violent crimes

A new article from FiveThirtyEight looks at the staggering sums of money taxpayers are liable for in police brutality lawsuit settlement in 31 American cities. The data are unsurprisingly incomplete, and unsurprisingly appalling.

Business & Economics Urban Planning Burgerbanism Public Health

Outdoor Dining? This Is A Building With Four Walls And A Roof!

December 14, 2020January 4, 2021 Luo Yang 0 Comments accessory commercial unit, accessory structures, cafe gulistan, covid, COVID and outdoor dining, COVID and restaurants, COVID in restaurants, COVID outdoor dining, COVID safety, detroit shipping company, dining, eastern market, eastern market brewing company, eastern market detroit, harbert michigan, IAQ, IAQ and covid, indoor air quality, james hamblin, new york, new york city, outdoor dining, pizzaplex, restaurants, riopelle, solo stove, temporary structures

Restauranteurs are finding it hard to figure out how to adapt to the winter months.

Urban Planning Public transit

Travel Writing: Density, Mobility, and Dreams of a Better New York

February 3, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments brooklyn, Density, historic preservation, hudson yards, manhattan, MTA, new jersey transit, new york city, NJ transit, north jersey, POCACITO, public transit, shwarma, stephen ross, TIF

I spent the long MLK weekend in New York City for some family visits, friend visits, professional prospecting, and some

Real Estate Urban Planning

Only In New York: Capital Mistakes in Density

January 6, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments air rights, Density, new york city, rich people, upzoning, YIMBY

New York’s current craze of demolishing usable buildings and replacing them with slightly denser ones is unsustainable and bad for business.

Business & Economics Urban Planning Culture & Language

What About Rochester: Toward More Geographical Diversity in a New Year

January 1, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments austin, bay area, buffalo, coastal chauvinism, jersey city, new york, new york city, new york state, newark, paterson, rochester

Interesting things are happening beyond the confines of Detroit’s parking lots. Here’s to looking at them in 2020.