Category: Featured
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Housing Justice Futures – Philadelphia Forum on Design, Race, and Climate Change
Philadelphia is the “poorest” large city in the United States, and more than one third of renters are paying over half their income on housing. It also remains at risk to climate change, most notably extreme heat and inland and coastal flooding. This forum examined the historical inequities that precipitated…
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Urban innovation at WRLDCTY 2023
Charting the future of our cities requires great creativity … and is more art than science. Shaping cities for a resilient, thriving future takes a global brain trust of inventive, visionary city-makers. At this event imaginative leaders flipped the script and explored new approaches to urban innovation through labs, talks, roundtables,…
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Episode 4 – PBS The Human Footprint
Marc Norman on Episode 4 on PBS The Human Footprint. In this episode of “The Human Footprint” Marc talks about urbanism and housing history and how lawns became the status symbol in the United States with Shane Campbell-Staton. Preview of the episode can be watched here. Full video can be…
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55th Annual Conference on Capital Markets in Real Estate
Marc Norman held a One on One Discussion with Paula Campbell Roberts of KKR about Interest Rates, Inflation, and Prospects for the US Economy during the 55th Annual Conference on Capital Markets in Real Estate. Watch the video here “Where we are losing jobs already is actually in that remote…
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CAMBA Housing Ventures
Associate Dean (and former CAMBA Housing Ventures Board Member) Marc Norman was honored at the 2023 CAMBA Night Out. The event also paid special tribute to retiring CAMBA President & CEO Joanne M. Oplustil. CAMBA Housing Ventures, Inc. was founded as an affiliate of CAMBA, Inc. in 2005 to address the rising…
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Housing market predictions: Six experts weigh in on the real estate outlook in 2023
NYU SPS Associate Dean Marc Norman and five other industry experts gave their inputs on residential housing market, mortgage rates, and office to residential conversions. “We’ve lived with the pandemic for almost three years, but that still is not enough time to shift ownership, financing, and regulatory systems for conversion…
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Tishman Speyer x NYU Schack x KPF
Studio by Tishman Speyer was joined by NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) for a discussion that focused on the many concepts of an office and the important role that inspiring spaces and community play in the post-pandemic era. The group shared their various perspectives at the…
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The State of Housing Design – Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (2023)
What is the US housing design landscape like? Specifically, what responses are architects giving to concerns like climate change, the affordability crisis, rising building regulations and costs, and the need for new unit types that more accurately reflect the demographic realities of today’s society? This event with Marc Norman and other…
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RADICAL MIDDLE GROUNDS: NEW AGENDAS FOR MEDIUM-DENSITY HOUSING
Radical Middle Grounds Symposium at UT Austin brought architects, historians, urban designers, and economists together for conversations about housing density, affordability, and the “middle grounds” between disciplines, scales and housing types. More information can be found here.
