Category: Symposia
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Place Making Takes Center Stage
A full day symposium put on by the University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning in conjunction with the Rudy Bruner Center brought thought leaders from around the globe together. Debated was the role of placemaking, the outcomes and players. Ultimately the proceedings and talks will be gathered into…
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Housing Affordability Summit
Centering the interconnectedness of community, equity, and the built environment, the National Building Museum convenes diverse thought leaders including Marc Norman for critical conversations on the current challenges and opportunities in the affordable housing crisis. The summit explores how collaborative action can reimagine and build a collective, thriving future. Recognizing that…
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56TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON CAPITAL MARKETS IN REAL ESTATE
For over half a century, the NYU Schack Capital Markets Conference has been one of the industry’s preeminent forums on the state of commercial real estate capital markets and investment activity. Once again this year, the conference convened industry leaders for a vigorous debate on global equity and debt capital…
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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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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,…
