Category: Symposia
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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,…
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RE: Housing Conference Surfaces Best Practices in Detroit and Beyond
Re: Housing: Detroit, a symposium held in Detroit and Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan, convened innovators and researchers across the academy, real estate, architecture, planning, housing advocacy, and the city of Detroit in pursuit of real solutions to Detroit’s “Missing Middle” density housing. Full conference can be viewed…
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Reframing Housing Development and Reducing the Cost of Development
REFRAMING HOUSING DEVELOPMENT: HOW CHANGES IN DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND REGULATION COULD REDUCE THE COST OF HOUSING What can be done to reduce the cost of housing, particularly in the United States? A half-day event for practitioners, scholars, policymakers, and others delved into this question. Convened by the Harvard GSD and…
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Designing Affordability Exhibition Travels to Sydney
Designing Affordability, an exhibition on innovative approaches to efficient design and affordability opened in Sydney Australia on October 6, 2016 and ran through November of 2016 at Tin Sheds Gallery. With generous support from Urban Growth NSW and the University of Sydney the exhibition which debuted at the Center for…
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Immanent Urbanisms Lecture Series Winter 2016
A SERIES OF DISCUSSIONS AND TALKS ABOUT HOW BOTTOM-UP URBANISM IS REMAKING THE LANDSCAPES OF DESIGN, POWER AND ECONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY (see the full schedule of lectures here) Kick off is Tuesday, Jan 26th, 2016 7:30 pm at THE RED VICTORIAN, 1665 Haight St. San Francisco, CA 94117 with MARC NORMAN – DESIGNING AFFORDABILITY:…
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Oculus Fall 2015 Home Game: Winning with Housing
I am honored to be included in the Fall Issue of Oculus Magazine, a publication of the AIA New York Chapter. The issue, ” Home Game: Winning with Housing,” focuses specifically on housing that supports a population needed for the city to grow economically, culturally, sustainably – and equitably. A big…
