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Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

COVID Didn’t Close Roads. Why Is So Much Transit Still Shut Down?

May 13, 2021May 11, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments covid, COVID and transit, COVID safety and transit, COVID19, covid19 diaries, DC, dc metro, is transit safe during COVID, public health, transit, transit safety, washington, Washington DC, wmata

Transit in DC was good! Not great, but good! Buses? A+. Metro? Well, it was a mixed bag.

Public Health Public Safety Transit infrastructure

Lethal Projectiles: Car Culture, Gun Violence, and Police Shootings

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments adam toledo, black lives matter, BLM, brian calley, brooklyn center, chicago, city government, department of transportation, detroit police, detroit police chief james craig, detroit will breathe, diane cross, gun violence in chicago, james craig, jeff cranson, lane miles, level-of-service, LoS, mdot, michigan department of transportation, municipal government, officer-involved shooting, police abolition, police abolition movement, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police reform, police shooting, police shootings, public health, public police, traffic violence, violence, what about chicago, what about gun violence in chicago

Matthew Lewis points out that departments of transportation and police departments are two of the least democratic institutions in American society right now– and are two of the biggest threats to public health.

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Is COVID C-OV-er? In the US, maybe. There’s a Big “But.”

April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bolsonaro, cardi b coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus vaccine, coronavirus variants, covid, covid variants, covid19 variants, grim milestone, grim milestones, india, jair bolsonaro, modi, modi india, narendra modi, nCoV19, public health

The COVID vaccine rollout in the US is, at long last, coming together. COVID vaccine rates in other countries are struggling as a product of inadequate supply and inadequate infrastructure. Addressing this is vital as a matter of global economic stability, if not basic humanitarianism.

Mobility Public Health Public Safety Cities & Urban Planning Cycling

Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accessibility, automobile fatalities, automotive infrastructure, autonomous vehicle, autonomous vehicles, car fatalities, car infrastructure, cars, class, cycling, cycling safety, cyclist, cyclists, death, driving, elaine herzberg, elaine herzberg death, elaine herzberg uber, environmental racism, mobility, pedestrian, pedestrian deaths, pedestrian safety, pedestrianization, pedestrians, pedestrians killed, public health, public safety, race, safe mobility, safe streets, self-driving car, single-occupant vehicles, street design, streetscaping, walkability

Angie Schmitt’s Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (2020) is a must-read

Public Health Data & Analytics

COVID, Bad Data, And The Rural-Urban Media Divide

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments covid, COVID19, data, media markets, public health, rural economy, rural markets, small towns

In recent weeks, a lot of Americans in major metro areas have looked at the daily COVID case counts around

Business & Economics Public Health

2020 Took No Prisoners; Didn’t Even Spare Clearance Sales

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments big box retail, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, public health, retail, retail apocalypse, retail economy

COVID has sweeping effects on retail, leading to questions about why we spend time in stores like Marshalls in the first place.

Urban Planning Public Health Seattle Tech

Did Cities Ever Need Tech, Anyway? Seattle vs. the Post-COVID Economy

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Amanda Spiegel 0 Comments amazon, coronavirus, covid, crime, homelessness, housing, housing crisis, housing insecurity, housing security, missing middle, public health, seattle, tableau, tech, tech bubble

Long a sleepy seaport town, Seattle was enjoying a fraught, decade-long flirtation with explosive growth– and inequality. Will COVID bust up the party forevermore?

So, How Flat IS That Curve, Anyway?

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments coronavirus, COVID19, data, public health, statistics

At the same time various states reopen their economies following a coronavirus-induced shutdown, all of our evidence suggests that the rate of infection isn’t actually slowing.

Business & Economics Public Health

COVID19 Diaries: Thank You For Your Service, Workers! Have A Pepsi.

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments coronavirus, covid, COVID19, covid19 diaries, kroger, pepsi, public health, unions, workers

WE’VE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT THE FRAGILITY OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, specifically with regard to the American worker. While

Sure, the Federal Government is Failing. What if That’s The Point?

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments coronavirus, deficit, disaster relief, Donald Trump, federal deficit, federal reserve, FEMA, fox news, healthcare, jerome powell, media, mike pence, mike pompeo, national debt, pandemic, public health

Critiques of Donald Trump’s presidency have focused on his use of the executive office for personal gain. Less discussed is the intentionality of the executive’s efforts to undermine the effectiveness of the federal government at large.

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