Sprawl - The Handbuilt City

When Did The Police Become So, Uh, Anti-Law?

May 25, 2023May 24, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ar-15, blue lives matter, bootlicking, constitutional county, cops, dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains, fascism, firearm deaths, firearm policy, firearm regulation, firearm safety, firearms, FOP, fraternal order of police, gun, gun control, gun policy reform, gun safety, handgun, howell, joe spaulding, KKK, law enforcement, living in the sprawl, livingston county, macomb county, magazine capacity limits, michigan, militarism, ottawa county, Ottawa County Board of Commissioners, police, police reform, policing, red flag laws, rifle, semiauto, semiautomatic weapons, Sprawl

The latest insanity out of America’s Largest Strip Mall (a.k.a. Michigan) is the bold declaration of some police agencies in

Urban Planning Housing

Pattern Zoning: What Is It? Is It Good?

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments cookie-cutter housing, development policy, housing, land use policy, michigan, michigan municipal league, missing middle, missing middle housing, pattern housing, pattern zoning, real estate development, residential development, Sprawl, suburb, suburban, suburban development, suburbs, tract housing, Zoning

The Michigan Municipal League thinks that a modern take on pattern zoning might actually help encourage better infill and planned development.

Art & Design Urban Planning Burgerbanism Profiles Travel

A Night Out in Jessica Cabot’s Los Angeles

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments congestion, fast food, hollywood, jessica cabot, los angeles, Sprawl, sunset boulevard, sunset strip, traffic, walk of fame

Nat tours Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, Sunset Boulevard, and Griffith Observatory with a native Angeleno, and even manages to eat an obscene amount of chili cheese fries.

Michigan Transit infrastructure

It’s Not Infrastructure If It’s Just Roads

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments brian calley, Bridge Magazine, gas tax, Gretchen Whitmer, HOV lanes, infrastructure, lee chatfield, matt maddock, michigan, mike shirkey, NUMTOT, public finance, road funding, roads, Sprawl, tolls, transit, transit infrastructure, UN Agenda 21 Globalist Conspiracy, user fees, VMT tax

I spoke with Brian Calley on proposals to fix the damn roads– and to understand whether Republicans might consider transit a good complement.

Urban Planning

Lancaster, PA: As A Small City Thrives, Its Suburbs Founder

January 28, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments amazon, cartoon network hotel, economic development, hospitality, hotels, lancaster, mccaskey high school, retail, retail apocalypse, shopping malls, Sprawl, strip malls, urban renewal

On a recent trip back to my hometown, I poked around the eastern suburbs, visiting a friend who had just

Public transit Travel

Bridging The Transit Gulf: APTA Conference in Tampa

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments APTA, BRT, climate change, conference, ferry, florida, growth management, HART, LRT, public transit, Sprawl, st. petersburg, suburbs, tampa, tampa bay, taxes, transit, transit infrastructure, transit initatives, transportation, travel, urban growth boundary

I just wrapped up a few days in Tampa for APTA’s Transit Initiatives workshop. The mini-conference, produced by the DC-based

Urban Planning

Greening Sprawl and The Limits of Incrementalism

October 8, 2019October 8, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments arkansas, CNU, Density, Detroit, greenfield, LEED, municipal revenue, New Urbanism, Oklahoma, rick fedrizzi, Sprawl, straw ban, strip malls, suburbia, suburbs, townships, Urban planning

Often, when I get excited about a discussion about sustainable urbanism or green building, the projects in question turn out

Environmental Justice Urban Planning Environment

What’s More Expensive Than Spending On Climate Change? Not Spending On It.

September 12, 2019September 11, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments alabama, bahamas, cap and trade, carbon tax, climate adaptation, climate change, flood management, florida, GSI, gulf coast, houston, hurricane dorian, hurricane harvey, hurricane maria, louisiana, miami, mississippi, new orleans, puerto rico, resilience, resilient infrastructure, Sprawl, stormwater infrastructure, texas, urban growth

One morning last fall, I found myself standing in the basement of my 1895 home, watching a waterfall cascade off