Category: Research
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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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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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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.
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Conversions, Conservation and Carbon: Re-Building for the New Normal
A great collaboration between AECOM and NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate for an amazing panel discussion about opportunities and challenges for office to residential conversion in New York City. Featuring a keynote by Dan Garodnick, Chair of the Mayor’s Office Adaptive Reuse Task Force.
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MRED+D LECTURE: A CONVERSATION ON EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT AND INCLUSIVITY BY DESIGN WITH MARC NORMAN
As the Spring 2022 MRED+D Bernadette Ma Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Real Estate, I will be in dialog with faculty, students and guests at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design on Monday, March 7, 2022 at 6:30pm PST. More information about the talk can be found at this link.
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Shaping Future Cities: Chicago
Chicago is experiencing simultaneously, a new spate of explosive growth in and around the CBD and continuing decline in already disadvantaged neighborhoods. This panel sponsored by Taubman College and the new Weiser Center for Real Estate explores the innovative ways the city is linking developments throughout the city through planning,…
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Relaunch of Harvard Design Magazine
The Harvard Design Magazine has just published issue #48: America. As part of the relaunch there was a panel discussion next Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30pm Eastern with the editors, and authors in this issue. I was in dialog with guest editors Mark Lee and Florencia Rodriguez, and authors, Paul…
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Dialogues around Food ACCESS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
On March 11, 2021 at 4pm, Mimi Fritz, President and CEO of the Grand Rapids Downtown Market and Ted Spitzer, President of Market Ventures, Inc. who helped realize the vision will be in dialog with Marc Norman. The Downtown Market is an award winning development that ties philanthropy, market economics,…
