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Adventures in Wooster, Ohio

May 24, 2023May 24, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments anthony wayne, arboretum, boo bear's brew, canals, college towns, courthouses, david wooster, e-pak, hampton inn, local roots market, midwestern courthouses, OARDC, ohio, ohio light opera, OSU, second empire architecture, secrest arboretum, The Ohio State University, travel, travel writing, wayne center for the arts, wooster, wooster college, wooster ohio

Last week began what will be the first of a few actual summer vacations. This first adventure took us to

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Urban Planning Mobility Public Safety

“Bike Lanes Are Against My Morals,” Says Ohio Woman

February 9, 2022February 9, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bexley, bexley ohio, bike, bike lanes, columbus, columbus ohio, livability, ohio, protected bike lanes, retrofitting the suburbs, roads, sharrow, sharrows, street, streets, suburban sprawl, suburbs, the profoundly disappointing gesturalism of the sharrow, walkability

The economics of parking are simple. Convincing community members, though? Sometimes not so much.

Business & Economics Urban Planning Transit infrastructure Infrastructure

Michigan Population Numbers: How Long Before We Just Admit That This Strategy Isn’t Working?

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1837 border war, add lane miles, aging population, big two and a half, chaldeans, chrysler, Congress, congressional seats, fca, fiat chrysler, Ford, ford motor company, funding infrastructure, general motors, GM, Gretchen Whitmer, growth, infrastructure, infrastructure and economic growth, infrastructure investment, japan, level-of-service, matt maddock, mdot, meshawn maddock, michigan, michigan legislature, ohio, population decline, population growth, rail, rail infrastructure, refugees, rightsizing, rightsizing cities, rightsizing infrastructure, shrinking cities, stellantis, tokyo, toledo border war, transit, trucks, trump, US Congress, vmt, vmt reduction, whitmer

The census numbers are in, and we’re unsurprised to learn that population growth is stagnant in parts of the great,

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.

Urban Planning Transit infrastructure Environment

On The Banks of the Mighty Maumee

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, economic development, gary, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, habitat loss, habitat restoration, johnstown, manifest destiny, maumee river, native landscaping, ohio, parks, prairie grasses, public space, rail infrastructure, stormwater management, tallgrass prairie, toledo, trains, youngstown

In anticipation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s imminent assumption of her role as supreme socialist ruler of the cosmos, in which she