Podcasts about placemaker

You know we love the idea of placemaking, Main Streets, and small things that have a big impact. Jaime Izuireta does, too, and has an architect and designer, he focuses not only on storefront design but the interaction between users and the built environment. This episode goes way beyond “How do we make Main Streets pretty?” to “How do we create an amazing Main Street experience?”   About Jaime:   Jaime J. Izurieta is an architect, designer and author focused on improving the quality of the interaction between users and the built environment. Jaime is the founder of Storefront Mastery, an award-winning creative agency that imagines and designs local experiences by working with place management organizations and local businesses. Jaime is also the author of Main Street Mavericks and The Ten No-B.S. Rules For Successful Storefront Design.    With over 20 years of experience as small business owner, urban designer, Placemaker, and economic development consultant, Jaime proudly serves communities all over the nation from Montclair, New Jersey.   In this episode, we cover:  What “street experience” means and why it matters Why it's easy to “right-size” the idea of urban vitality  The difference between transactional and experiential Jaime's advice for business owners about where to start when it comes to experience, their business, or where they can start when thinking about storefront design What every business owner can do to improve the street experience Links and Resources Mentioned: Storefront Mastery: https://storefrontmastery.com Main Street Mavericks: https://mainstreetmavericks.carrd.co SM's Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/storefrontmastery Jaime's LinkedIn profile: https://linkedin.com/in/izurietavarea Book mentioned: Drawing for Architecture by Leon Krier

Hallo und herzlich willkommen zurück zu "Der Mutmacher- Podcast für authentischen Vertrieb"! In dieser Episode freue ich mich besonders, Anouk Braune als unseren besonderen Gast begrüßen zu dürfen. Anouk Braune ist nicht nur die Gründerin und Geschäftsführerin von Natural Networks, sondern auch "Placemaker". Was Anouk als Placemakerin macht und wie Innovation gestaltet werden kann, hörst du in dieser Folge.

Real estate is nothing without people. Even the most beautiful, historic spaces occasionally need a boost, and Stephanie Blake is the magician making that happen. As CEO of Skylight, she's responsible for activating spaces ranging from New York's Moynihan Station and St. John's Terminal to San Francisco's Ferry Building and Detroit's Michigan Central Station.Blake has built a reputation working with governments, brands, and real estate developers to build a sense of place and activity in incredible and often unconventional spaces. This week, she speaks with Brad about how she uses placemaking activations to bring vibrancy, purpose, and community to real estate of all types.Placemaking strategies have gained popularity for a variety of reasons; they help developers drive interim revenue, market a space that might be challenging for the public to understand and encourage businesses to come to an area that might otherwise be lacking. Skylight's brand of activation is a powerful toolkit for developers and governments alike, particularly as cities reconsider the role of offices, gathering places and central business districts in a post-pandemic world.Through her work, Blake puts her background in history to work. Each Skylight project begins with studying the context of space including both the history and the neighborhood. And it culminates working with brands to create extraordinary experiences in those spaces like NY Fashion Week, food festivals and concerts - to name just a few.This interview is full of rich insights about how developers can position their spaces to be welcoming places from day one, including the power of a blank canvas and lessons for operators repurposing challenging spaces.

Today we're joined by a special guest, Jonathan Berk. Jonathan is an urban planner and placemaker based in Massachusetts. Through his work activating public spaces and shaping policy, Jonathan has become a leading voice in creating more livable, equitable communities across the state. We're excited to learn about Jonathan's background and insights on urban planning issues. Please help me welcome Jonathan to the podcast. Jonathan discussed his work shaping Boston's approach through temporary park activations that gather community feedback. He analyzed challenges in developing neighborhoods like the Seaport and retrofitting areas like Copley Square. Jonathan emphasized the importance of walkable neighborhoods for health, sustainability, and equity. Revitalizing main streets also came up, with challenges like zoning and a lack of housing. Small towns face obstacles attracting investment without amenities. Aging populations need options to stay in their communities. Overall, the conversation highlighted balancing development, community needs, and policy to create livable, vibrant places. Jonathan was passionate about influencing perspectives to support more housing in Massachusetts. This discussion on urbanism certainly left me thinking about how cities can better serve all residents. Things we discussed in this episode: - Creating Livable Cities Through Urban Planning. - Investment ranges for brick-and-mortar vs service industry franchises. - Activating Public Spaces for Community Use .  - Developing Neighborhoods & Balancing Stakeholders. - Retrofitting Cities for Pedestrians & Prosperity. - Reviving Main Streets & Downtown Districts. - Overcoming Obstacles to Small Town Renewal. - Why Walkable Matters for People & the Planet. - Influencing Perspectives on Housing & Development. Get in touch with Jonathan: Website - https://www.remainplaces.com/ Email - jonathan@remainplaces.com Facebook - https://www.instagram.com/berkie382 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-berk-1b14a020/ #realestatepodcast #realestate #realestateinvesting #realestateinvestor #UrbanPlanning #AffordableHousing  #Placemaking #PublicSpace #CommunityEngagement #WalkableCities #MainStreetRevitalization #SmallBusiness #AgeFriendlyCommunities #HousingPolicy Follow Us! Join Jason Muth of Prideaway Stays and Straightforward Short-Term Rentals and Real Estate Attorney / Broker Rory Gill for another episode of The Real Estate Law Podcast! Following and subscribing to The Real Estate Law Podcast not only ensures that you'll get instant updates whenever we release a new episode, but it also helps us reach more people who could benefit from the valuable content that we provide. The Real Estate Law Podcast Website and on Instagram and YouTube Prideaway Stays Website and on Facebook and LinkedIn Straightforward Short-Term Rentals Website and on Instagram Attorney Rory Gill on LinkedIn Jason Muth on LinkedIn This podcast and these show notes are not legal advice, but we hope you find both entertaining and informative. Hospitality.FM The Real Estate Law Podcast is part of Hospitality.FM, a podcast network dedicated to bringing the best hospitality-focused podcasts to those in and around the industry, from Food + Beverage, Guest Experience, Diversity & Inclusion, Tech, Operations, Hotels, Vacation Rentals, Real Estate Law, and so much more!

Bram Dewolfs  (Director of Urban Foxes, Placemaker, Brussel, Belgium) We are talking about: - Urban Foxes and co-creation- Why urban pedagogy?- Teach in schools Vs. Placemaking _________ Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️ All opinions expressed in each episode are personal to the guest and do not represent the Host of Urbanistica Podcast unless otherwise stated. Let's connect and talk further about this episode ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mustafa Sherif Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Visit  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mustafasherif.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for collaborations and nominations or email me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠info@mustafasherif.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Urbanistica on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠TikTok⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRY (Urban Planning and Design) AFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/urbanistica-podcast/message

When we talk about public spaces, we often throw around the word 'placemaking' without considering what the term really means. In this conversation, host Eliza Grosvenor is joined by Ruchi Chakravarty (Urban Designer, Masterplanner, Architect and Placemaker) and Federico Ortiz (Head of Content, NLA) to talk all things placemaking, and unpack the meaning of the word. To stay up-to-date with Ruchi's projects, you can follow her on LinkedIn. To keep in the loop with all upcoming NLA events and research, head to the website. You can download the New London Agenda here, and contribute to our Public London research here. To find out more about #LFAat20 or how to get involved in the Festival, head to the LFA website here. Have a question for the podcast? Email info@londonfestivalofarchitecture.org or call 020 7636 4044. This episode was edited and produced by Katya Spiers. You can download the transcript here. Timestamps for this episode: 1:03 Ruchi's relationship with the built environment 2:50 Quick-fire questions 4:20 Unpacking LFA theme 'Reimagine' 5:50 Defining 'placemaking' 11:01 Gillet Square, Dalston 15:30 Meanwhile projects and Harrow Road 18:37 Challenges of placemaking 21:45 Key pillars of placemaking 25:14 The New London Agenda with Federico 27:49 How to use the Agenda and upcoming NLA Research 32:34 Public London 33:57 What does the future of placemaking look like? 37:21 A challenge to LFA organisers 39:53 What would you reimagine?

Hi #SmartCommunity friends! Welcome to the Summer Series here on the Smart Community Podcast. As you know, we're taking a little break from new content over the Australian summer holidays, and instead we are sharing the replays of a few of our all time favourite episodes. This week we're sharing my interview with Samuel Austin from Episode 340, which was published in May 2023. Sam is an Urban Planner, Community Engagement Specialist and Placemaker, and also the NSW Young Planner of the Year 2022. In this episode, Sam tells us about his background in urban city planning, and his interest and passion for the relationship between people and place. We talk about the role data plays in planning and analysis of how people are using spaces, and Sam tells us about his work on the neon grid and nighttime economy strategy for Sydney. Sam and I discuss the importance of breaking down barriers and silos within cities and communities to foster an integrated approach for a seamless experience for customers, as well as what the nightime economy and neon grid looks like in semi urban and regional or rural settings. Sam tells us about community engagement projects he's worked on in Sydney and we finish our chat discussing the emerging trend of live data allowing for appropriate and timely responses to community requirements. As always, we hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed making it. Connect with Sam on LinkedIn  Connect with me via email: hello@mysmart.community Connect with My Smart Community via LinkedIn or Twitter and watch on YouTube Podcast Production by Perk Digital

Today's guest is Jason Fudin.   Jason Fudin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Placemakr, a mixed-use multifamily operator.   Show summary: In this podcast episode, Jason Fudin, CEO and co-founder of PlaceMaker, discusses their unique business model that blends different asset classes to create value in real estate. They offer a hospitality living or flex living model, similar to private student housing, and a pop-up hotel model where they partner with developers to run a subsection of new apartment buildings as furnished units during the lease-up period. Jason explains their transition from pop-ups to permanently flexible buildings and the challenges they faced along the way. He also shares his belief that blending real estate and higher utilization will become the norm, increasing the value of real estate.   -------------------------------------------------------------- Introl [00:00:00]   Jason Fudin's Background and Journey in Real Estate [00:01:12]   Spinning PlaceMaker Out and the Opportunity for Growth [00:03:30]   The Flex Living Model [00:09:37]   The Pop Up Hotel Model [00:10:46]   Building a Blended Asset Class Company [00:11:46]   The blending of real estate and higher utilization [00:18:44]   The transformative impact of the company's model on real estate [00:19:36]   Attracting good people to the team [00:20:23]   -------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Jason:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-fudin-16613ba/ Web: https://www.placemakr.com/   Connect with Sam: I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowtoscaleCRE/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samwilsonhowtoscalecre/ Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com   SUBSCRIBE and LEAVE A RATING. Listen to How To Scale Commercial Real Estate Investing with Sam Wilson Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-scale-commercial-real-estate/id1539979234 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4m0NWYzSvznEIjRBFtCgEL?si=e10d8e039b99475f -------------------------------------------------------------- Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below: Jason Fudin (00:00:00) - Let's say we're going to go build that 300 unit apartment building, brand new. Well, when you deliver it, the whole thing is empty, right? You got 300 empty, brand new apartment. What we do for partners that build new buildings is we come in and say, Hey, give us 100 units the day you open and we'll run a subsection of your building as an apartment hotel as you lease up. So if you're leasing 20 units a month, it'll take you 15 months to lease up an apartment building. For 12 of those 15 months, we'll run 100 or so units furnished where people can stay. And so we monetize that vacancy during lease up in a temporary way so that if the lease up takes a little bit longer, the developers make additional cash flow and if it goes faster, they make a little less. But it's an insurance policy that's paying them. And then for residents, they get, you know, an on site hotel, they get hospitality services for free. So we blend the asset classes.   Jason Fudin (00:00:49) - We're in the business of making real estate more valuable by blending the asset classes.   Sam Wilson (00:00:52) - Welcome to the How to Scale Commercial Real Estate show. Whether you are an active or passive investor, we'll teach you how to scale your real estate investing business into something big. Jason Fudan is the CEO and co-founder of Place Maker, a mixed use multifamily operator. Jason, welcome to the show.   Jason Fudin (00:01:12) - Thanks for having me, Sam.   Sam Wilson (00:01:13) - Absolutely. The pleasure is mine. Jason There are three questions I ask every guest who comes on the show in 90s or less. Where did you start? Where are you now and how did you get there?   Jason Fudin (00:01:22) - I started growing it up up in upstate New York. Uh, I went to college in Canada as an engineer, decided I wanted to be in real estate and not an engineer because real estate blends the community analytical challenges and money. And so found my way into real estate development. Started as a secretary. I worked my way up to running a couple of billion dollars in development and then eventually started my own company.   Jason Fudin (00:01:46) - And I'm building something for myself and my team.   Sam Wilson (00:01:48) - That is crazy. So the you said it so fast, I missed it. You started as a 90s.   Jason Fudin (00:01:56) - You kept me quick, you know?   Sam Wilson (00:01:58) - No, no, that was great, man. I love it. I love it. Sometimes you're like, you asked for 90s and it's like 900 seconds. You're like, Wait, that was 90, not 900. So no, you did good. I appreciate that. But the you started as a secretary and then you started running a couple billion dollars. You worked with running a $2 billion real estate development company.   Jason Fudin (00:02:15) - A pipeline. So I worked for a senior vice president at Vornado Realty. And at the time, the Vornado office was focused a lot of focus on office and I worked on the residential side, so there wasn't as much focus there. And I got this awesome boss who said he showed up was like, I'm running all these projects, how do you want me to hand them off? And he goes, Look, you seem like a brilliant kid that's going to work your ___ off.   Jason Fudin (00:02:39) - Like, let me know if you're drowning. So I just I worked an ungodly amount, learn the industry from some amazing colleagues. And when I left that role, yeah, I was responsible for about 2 billion of development between master plans, individual ground up developments. Um, and then then went over to a regional developer and ended up working with my now co-founder and we bought land and capitalized deals and did regulatory, you know, buildings, condos, apartments, retail, you name it, and then just continue to work my way up till eventually went back to that big company. He was an executive there, ran their innovation division, which was novel seven, eight years ago for a big public REIT and then built what is now place maker within the organization and spun it out. And we're about six years old now.   Sam Wilson (00:03:30) - Wow, that's really cool. When you decided to spin Place Maker out of that organization, what was the opportunity you saw in going off and doing your own thing that maybe wasn't there when that company was inside of the other business?   Jason Fudin (00:03:43) - So I always expected to go build my own company.   Jason Fudin (00:03:45) - And the reason I chose real estate development is it was $1 trillion asset class and I figured there had to be a niche space where smart person could go build something that they were passionate. And so I kind of bided my time. You know, I built a lot of real estate for other people, made them a lot of money. And then when I saw the opportunity to make real estate more valuable, real estate is just a set of cash flows. People become really like emotional about it, but really it's a set of cash flows. And so what became really obvious to me is if you could increase those cash flows in a predictable, nonvolatile way, you'd make real estate more valuable and saw the opportunity to do that. And I started doing that. And a big company, that company is a REIT, so they're precluded from having a hospitality operation in house and so they were unable to own the business I was building. So spun it out. Uh, asked my now co-founder to join me, raised a few million dollars of capital and and off we went.   Sam Wilson (00:04:38) - Got it. So you guys spun that out and now we talked about this before we started recording and I'd love to hear kind of what and again, I'm talking out of my league here quite a bit, so I'm going to have to rely.   Jason Fudin (00:04:49) - I doubt that, but I appreciate it.   Sam Wilson (00:04:51) - No, no, you're you're not too dumb it down for for somebody like me to understand. But you guys and I think the words that you use, you are you said we are a tech enabled operator, which means you guys are a venture. Lincoln said venture capital backed, tech enabled operator. Is that the way the way you said that?   Jason Fudin (00:05:09) - Yeah, I said it all jargony, but that's true. I'll dumb it down for you. So basically, a bunch of folks that invest in high growth operating companies have invested north of $70 million in our operating company under the premise that it will become a large public company over time. And so there's two major innovations in our operating business. One is blending multiple real estate asset classes to create higher yield, more viable real estate, the commingling of real estate.   Jason Fudin (00:05:42) - The second innovation is operating that co-mingled real estate in a way that depends largely on software and other technology tools in order to maintain lower expense ratios. And so off a more cash flow, more profit on the property base. And so we are those two things. As an operating company, we're pioneers in the blending of asset class classes and were the forefront of using technology to operate those assets efficiently.   Sam Wilson (00:06:08) - Can you give me a case, a case study on that?   Jason Fudin (00:06:11) - Yeah, sure. So we and we also buy buildings, so I'll put it all in one. There's a building we bought in Nashville, I think you're in Tennessee, right?   Sam Wilson (00:06:19) - Am Yes.   Jason Fudin (00:06:20) - We bought a building that in. Asheville and the sober neighborhood just off Broadway, its 300 or so units. The cost us about $140 million, $150 million. And so we acquired that with an outside investor. We we bought that asset with the with the plan of blending hospitality and multifamily. So that 313 unit asset has about 200 furnished units today, just over 100 unfurnished units, a single onsite operating team that's probably about a third the size that you'd see at a hotel, the same at the same size.   Jason Fudin (00:06:51) - And something like 80% of our arrivals are contact list. And so a lot of that like concierge check and stuff that needs to happen at a traditional hotel doesn't happen for us. All the locks are automated in our backend system. The same if you booked with us the day before, you'd get an automated code to get into your room, you can turn your phone into your key. And so that entire experience happens with a lot less kind of hand-holding. Think about like ordering an Uber today versus calling up a cab ten years ago. So we've automated a lot of that. In addition, we've blended a global workforce with an onsite team, so a lot of things that traditionally would be handled on site at, you know, all hours of the night or whatever else we handle out of, we call it off site supports team in other states, at other properties or in other countries. And that allows us to continue to maintain a pretty low cost of goods sold on the expense side. So that particular asset runs just shy of a 50% margin.   Jason Fudin (00:07:47) - Um, and an average hotel runs at a 25% margin and service maybe at 30. So we're, we're doing almost twice as good as pure play hospitality, um, because of technology.   Sam Wilson (00:08:01) - Now in that building was a it is a hotel or it is a yeah this.   Jason Fudin (00:08:09) - That's like saying like that's like saying on your phone is that the storefront that you went to or it's not that was probably not the right ways to frame it. Right? Our customers fall into four categories folks that rent with us for 12 or more months where they bring their own furniture. It's their home, they sign up for the internet, everything else. Yep. Um, and they have access to hospitality services. So, you know, you could opt in for cleaning or linen service or whatever, you know, it's just. It's a more experiential home. Sure. Um, that's about a third of that building. The other two thirds is furnished. And we have three types of furnished guests. We have long stay furnished. So think like your company is moving you to Nashville.   Jason Fudin (00:08:48) - You know, they're like, Hey, for six months, we'll pay for your housing. They just. They just rent a one bedroom apartment for six months. The next is we call it interim housing. Think like two weeks to six weeks. You're a doctor on residency, you're traveling nurse, whatever. You're reloading, you're getting your house renovated. It's too long to be living out of a hotel, but too short to actually sign a traditional lease. Right. Um, and then our last set of customers are transient. You're coming to Nashville Thursday through Monday because you're going to go down to Broadway and hopefully behave a little bit. Um, you're working Monday through Thursday in town on projects on a regular basis. You're a consultant. Um, and so that's kind of the core set of customers we have. And any particular property.   Sam Wilson (00:09:30) - And this is the same model you guys like you said, any particular property, It's the same model you guys are carrying to each.   Jason Fudin (00:09:37) - Yeah. So, yeah. So we do that in Nashville, we do that in New York City, we do that in Washington, D.C. We optimize like that particular asset will have more than doubled the cash flow from when we bought it within 24 months.   Jason Fudin (00:09:49) - So it'll be 24 months here in December, we'll have more than double the in-place cash flow. So that's obviously material for an asset like that. So it's not a hotel per se, it's not an apartment building per se. It's structurally an apartment building with an operating model that leads to higher cash flow. Think one of the easier analogies is to think of private student housing, where they're building essentially apartments. But they're, you know, they're they're structured around a specific set of customers where they can drive more cash flow than a pure play apartment building in that same city. We're like that on steroids. On steroids. Right? Like we're that times a lot more. So that's that's called our hospitality. Living or flex living model. That's about 80% of our inventory. The other 20% we run is that kind of a unique little model we call a pop up hotel. And so let's say you were going to go build that 300 unit apartment building, brand new. Well, when you deliver it, the whole thing is empty, right? You got 300 empty, brand new apartment.   Jason Fudin (00:10:46) - What we do for partners that build new buildings is we come in and say, Hey, give us 100 units the day you open and we'll run a subsection of your building as an apartment hotel as you lease up. So if you're leasing 20 units a month, it'll take you 15 months to lease up an apartment building. For 12 of those 15 months, we'll run 100 or so units furnished where people can stay. And so we monetize that vacancy during lease up in a temporary way so that if the lease up takes a little bit longer, the developers make additional cash flow and if it goes faster, they make a little less. But it's an insurance policy that's paying them. And then for residents, they get, you know, an on site hotel, they get hospitality services for free. So we blend the asset classes. We're in the business of making real estate more valuable by blending the asset classes.   Sam Wilson (00:11:28) - That's really, really genius. Where did I mean, I've had, I don't know, what's this 800 and something episodes that we've put out on this show.   Sam Wilson (00:11:37) - And I've not heard anyone doing this model. Where did you cook this up? Was this your own home cooking or was this a model you've copied from somewhere else? How did you come up with this?   Jason Fudin (00:11:46) - I would say own cooking. Um, so when I was at Vornado running their innovation group, it's been a bunch of time looking at how do you make real estate more valuable? And one of one of the there's basically two ways to make real estate more valuable. There's more, but like there's two big ways you take existing assets. One is you get more assets through the door, higher utilization. The other is you sell to the highest paying customer at any point in time, which is commingling uses. And if you think about real estate as a, you know, an evolution of a bond, a fixed income asset, your goal is to throw off more cash flow in a predictable way. And so by doing those two things, you know, the the high utilization is like co-living co-working, shared conferencing.   Jason Fudin (00:12:26) - The co-mingling is something like what we do or what a convene does in the office conferencing space. And yeah, it just was really obvious to me. And so I sat down with my analyst at the time, me and her in a room and we were like, What is the easiest way to blend asset classes, to create value? And we're like, Well, what is more wasteful than a brand new empty apartment building? Like is crazy? They were like, Well, if we can there's a there's a duration mismatch between the timing of how you lease up a building correctly, um, and how quickly someone could use it in the interim. They're like, oh, we'll just pair those two things to go build an operating company that blends the asset classes where it's free money, and then once we get good at that, we move to the permanent model. So our business plan originally was start with pop ups until you understand and get good and build the tech stack and, you know, understand customer, customer funnel and OpEx ratios and all that crap.   Jason Fudin (00:13:18) - And then once we get good enough, it's no longer free money. We make it the core business. And that's that evolution that we evolved to. We started the company in 17 and my partner and by 2021, so within four years we were buying and rolling out permanently flexible buildings. And today we have a couple thousand units of this stuff.   Sam Wilson (00:13:35) - That is really cool. Tell me about some of the operational challenges that you face and how you overcome them.   Jason Fudin (00:13:44) - I mean, operations is messy in anyone that anyone that's in the operating business knows that you designed your best set of procedures and structure. You hire super talented people that are empathetic and then you learn by doing. And so every time you make a mistake, you figure out why you made it. You make a right, you make it better. And that's kind of been our iterative process. I'd say we've accelerated it by using technology. We've accelerated by bringing a bunch of veterans on that run, billions of dollars of assets or, you know, hundreds of stores or whatever.   Jason Fudin (00:14:19) - We blend. Leadership generally is a mix of people from the multifamily world in the hotel world, so each can take their best habits hopefully, and try to cancel out each other's worst. And I'd say one of the biggest mistakes we made early on when we started the company is we didn't appreciate the value of building the right culture and talent. You know, as developers were kind of like, Oh, we just, you know, you build a building like any bricks need windows, whatever. Like a company's not like that. It's like a living organism. And so one of the biggest mistakes we made at first was not appreciating how critical it was to build that culture, that set of norms. And, you know, we had like core values that couldn't even tell you what they were. So it was total crap. Um, but today, you know, we have three norms of the company. We own it, we make it better, we treat people right. Everyone rallies around that and they know that if they ____ up, but they do it in, you know, an effort for one of those norms that they're going to get some grace.   Jason Fudin (00:15:11) - And that's helped us build a foundation of a high quality team. And then people that do a great job, we promote them fast and often and give them more and more responsibility. And so and then we offer people where we feel like they're not a fit. We don't just wait it out as some big company.   Sam Wilson (00:15:26) - Oh, no. I think that's that's really, really great. And that was going to kind of be my next my next question behind this because there's you know, I look at what you're doing and obviously don't understand it in a comprehensive way, but it's like getting something like this off the ground. You got to find that multifamily building that that was just built that's empty. Then you got to find that model. How are we going to set up the pop up hotel? And we got to find all the services, all the people to plug in. I mean, that's a lot of things to get all moving in a common direction and get it working out of the gate to where the first one works.   Sam Wilson (00:15:59) - Then you can go out and do it like you've done across the country. I mean, that just sounds like a monumental undertaking.   Jason Fudin (00:16:05) - Yes. Yes. I mean, that's the business. You know, certain innovations are kind of like blue ocean, like AI or something else where basically, you know, human technology has never, you know, cross that chasm. And so it's a very different kind of innovation. You know, like you fundamentally change the way something works, like when the world went from like pulleys for lifting weights to hydraulics, you know, like it was just a pure technological change. In our case, the reason I called it a tech enabled operation is that's exactly what it is, is we're solving thousands of little problems in a cohesive way so that the outcome leads to higher profitability, effective, you know, customers, a customer product. Our Net Promoter score is close to the Ritz-Carlton, even though we're at that much lower. So, yeah, we had to solve a million problems and we have another 10 million to solve, but that's what makes the operating company valuable.   Jason Fudin (00:16:58) - It was just a small little like jump leap, whatever. No one would pay us the money. They pay us on a contracted multi-year basis to increase the value of the real estate.   Sam Wilson (00:17:09) - Right, Right. Yeah. No, I like that. Yeah. There are thousands of problems to solve. Do you feel like what you guys are doing? I mean, feel like it's you're on the you're on the front end of this kind of model? I mean, do you see other operators beginning to copy your, your kind of.   Jason Fudin (00:17:27) - Yeah, we've seen people do pieces of it. So to your point, every piece that we do is complicated. So we've seen people run furnished apartments like a hotel where they sign leases and have to deal with the management contracts and the structure. We've seen people run apartments this 30 day plus corporate housing. We've seen people buy the stuff and bring another operators. We've seen we've seen every version of we've seen folks in the hotel space just try to use technology to make them more efficient operators.   Jason Fudin (00:17:51) - So we've seen like all of the pieces of our business, I would say that no one effectively like we does. We do bring it all together and to bring it all together is where the real value is created. It's the flexibility, you know, building in the optionality into the real estate. But yeah, we've seen a lot of people touch around the edges and then there's a number of buyers and developers that pursue just the real estate strategy and they bring us in as their partner. We either power their stuff or we operate their stuff or whatever. Um, the company today is on a trajectory to be worth a couple billion dollars over the next few years as kind of a niche player. So if you think about, again, private student housing, that's a small market relative to real estate United States, but there's multibillion dollar players in that space. And like if our view of the world is wrong and what we're doing is niche, we become a couple of billion dollar company, we create a few billion dollars of creation of value in real estate and.   Jason Fudin (00:18:44) - Pondered. We go. My belief, my strong belief is that the blending of real estate and the higher utilization of real estate will become the norm for new projects because it's more valuable, right? And that will be reflected in land pricing. And as soon as land trades at a price that reflects a higher and better use. Developers won't have a choice but to build versions of our model as a physical asset, right? And when that happens, we're not a couple of billion dollar company. We're competing with the biggest hotel companies in the world, the biggest public companies in the world. And we're powering a new generation of real estate assets and corporate markets.   Sam Wilson (00:19:19) - I love it. No, I absolutely love it. This is this is an episode I'm probably going to kind of mentally catalog or putting my my, my brain bank and say, okay, you know what? We're going to we're going to go back to this 1 in 7 years like a what do they call those? One of those things we did as kids, whether you'd like.   Jason Fudin (00:19:34) - Right time the time capsule. Yeah. There you go.   Sam Wilson (00:19:36) - The time capsule, You know. You know, first grade. I want to be a firefighter someday. Like, okay, open this in 20 years. So I'm going to come back in about seven years and say, okay, where did Jason and his company go and how his real estate really shifted? Because you're absolutely right. Like the highest and best use with what you guys are doing is transformative in the way that these buildings are operated and owned. And I think this is this is really, really cool. I got one final question for you here, Jason, before we sign off. And it really comes down to bringing good people on your team, what would you say? Because I know you mentioned this there. You said, hey, you know, we've brought on some of the brightest and best that we could. How did you attract them to what you were doing and make it an attractive place for them to come come to work.   Jason Fudin (00:20:23) - I think actions speak louder than words. And so if you see the way me and my partner run the business, we run it in the way that we'd want to be treated as employees. We've built a culture of transparency, of hard truths and a, you know, the best answer wins, not the most senior person. And I think that that attracts a players and they bring in their other friends and people they've worked with. And it's kind of contagious in that way. I think also structurally we've made ourselves accessible to a bigger pool of talent. So we on the corporate side are remote first, and that means that we have team members in some 30 states. That means that anyone in America that has access to high speed Internet can work on the corporate team. In fact, that means anywhere, anyone, anywhere in the world technically could if we structure their contract correctly. Right. Um, and that's been, that's been huge on the non property side is there's a lot of overlooked, highly talented people, whether they're new moms or otherwise, want to live in places that don't lend themselves to a corporate office.   Jason Fudin (00:21:23) - So we've, we've, you know, dipped into that largely. And then on property, you can move up within our within an organization so much more quickly than you can like pick a big apartment operator hotel where it's like, well you do two years at the front desk and you do like, ___ that, man. Like if you're doing exceptional work and you're having an impact, we're going to give you more and more. And so for our property team members, they're able to move up quickly and get that responsibility. Everyone gets stuck in the company from our cleaners through the executives, and we built the company where hopefully we all went together.   Sam Wilson (00:21:53) - That's awesome. That's awesome. Jason, thank you for taking the time to come on the show today. This has been awesome. Learned so much from you and love the model you guys are bringing to the market. If our listeners want to get in touch with you or learn more about you and your firm, what is the best way to do that?   Jason Fudin (00:22:07) - Yeah, just shoot me a note on LinkedIn.   Jason Fudin (00:22:08) - I do a pretty okay job of checking it. I'll get back to you. And then we always have positions open, so please apply for them. You can mention you heard me on this podcast and come stay with us as a guest.   Sam Wilson (00:22:19) - Sounds great. Jason, thank you so much for coming on the show today. Certainly appreciate it.   Jason Fudin (00:22:23) - Thanks, Sam. Thanks for having me.   Sam Wilson (00:22:25) - Hey, thanks for listening to the How to Scale Commercial Real Estate podcast. If you can do me a favor and subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, whatever platform it is you use to listen. If you can do that for us, that would be a fantastic help to the show. It helps us both attract new listeners as well as rank higher on those directories. So appreciate you listening. Thanks so much and hope to catch you on the next episode.  

Hi #SmartCommunity friends, welcome back to the Smart Community podcast. In this episode, I have a great conversation with Samuel Austin. Sam is an Urban Planner, Community Engagement Specialist and Placemaker, and also the NSW Young Planner of the Year 2022. In this episode, Sam tells us about his background in urban city planning, and his interest and passion for the relationship between people and place. We talk about the role data plays in planning and analysis of how people are using spaces, and Sam tells us about his work on the neon grid and nighttime economy strategy for Sydney. Sam and I discuss the importance of breaking down barriers and silos within cities and communities to foster an integrated approach for a seamless experience for customers, as well as what the nighttime economy and neon grid looks like in semi urban and regional or rural settings. Sam tells us about community engagement projects he's worked on in Sydney and we finish our chat discussing the emerging trend of live data allowing for appropriate and timely responses to community requirements. As always, we hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed making it. Connect with Sam on LinkedIn  Connect with me via email: hello@mysmart.community Connect with My Smart Community via LinkedIn or Twitter and watch on YouTube Podcast Production by Perk Digital

Christie Purifoy is Stephanie's near-neighbor and dear, dear friend. They invite you in the conversation to deepen our relationship with God through simple ways to add beauty to your home through flowers, year round.  What does gardening teach us about intimacy with Him? How do flowers invite us to trust Him through the seasons of life – the seasons of abundance, or growth, but also of winter, wilderness, and waiting? Through enchanting prose and delightful activities, avid writer, gardener and place-maker Christie Purifoy invites you to capture the curious magic of the garden and bring its life and joy into your home this season.  A flower garden is a place where endless possibilities are contemplated (and celebrated), where reason bows to beauty, and practicality gives way to whimsy. It's where we sink our roots deep, lean into the rhythms of each season, and wish for beautiful things to grow. Stephanie has been labelled a “black thumb” as a child – meaning, she is more apt to kill a plant, than to give it the environment to thrive! Can she cultivate a home in bloom? Christie brings hope to this helpless flower-killer who constantly seeks beauty in all areas of her life. Christie and Stephanie had initially met a few weeks before they recorded Christie's first guest appearance on Gospel Spice, back in 2022. And now they are together again to discuss Christie's latest book, A home in bloom, and its deep ramifications in our spiritual lives and our relationships with one another. MORE ABOUT A HOME IN BLOOM A HOME IN BLOOM is the second book in the trilogy that started with GARDEN MAKER. They go so well together, both visually and thematically, that it would be a shame not to own both of them! They make the perfect Mother's day gift, among many other gift occasions. This fully photographed guide shows you how to enjoy the many gifts the garden offers inside your own home, transforming your living spaces into places filled with warmth and wonder. Each season, Christie shares her notes on what to plant and walks you through easy projects that will surely become lifelong practices that help you bring the outdoors in. Learn how to grow your house into a home in bloom. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Home-Bloom-Enchanted-Seasons-Flowers/dp/0736982167 A Home in Bloom is now available online and in local stores everywhere! MORE ABOUT CHRISTIE PURIFOY Christie is a writer and avid gardener. She earned a PhD in English Literature from the University of Chicago and has taught literature and composition at the undergraduate level. Her books include Garden Maker: Growing a Life of Beauty and Wonder with Flowers, Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons, and Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and Peace. She explores her love of gardening and all things beautiful at her Victorian farmhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania. Meet Christie at https://www.christiepurifoy.com/ We invite you to check out the first episode of each of our series, and decide which one you will want to start with. Or, of course, you can start at the beginning with episode 1.  Season 1: the gospel of Matthew like you've never experienced it https://www.podcastics.com/episode/3280/link/ Season 2: Experience Jesus through the Psalms https://www.podcastics.com/episode/33755/link/ Season 3: the gospel of Luke, faith in action https://www.podcastics.com/episode/40838/link/ Season 4: Proverbs spiced with wisdom https://www.podcastics.com/episode/68112/link/ Season 5: Identity in the battle | Ephesians https://www.podcastics.com/episode/74762/link/ Season 6: Centering on Christ | The Tabernacle experience https://www.podcastics.com/episode/94182/link/ Season 7: Shades of Red | Against human oppression https://www.podcastics.com/episode/115017/link/ Season 8: God's glory, our delight |  https://www.podcastics.com/episode/126051/link/   Support us!

Gudrun Degenhart ist seit September 2022 CEO der ISS Deutschland. In der Podcastfolge besprechen wir was sie an der FM-Branche fasziniert, ob sie den großen Telekom-Kunden als Fluch oder Segen bezeichnet, welche (kulturellen) Besonderheiten dieses Facility Service Unternehmen mit dänischer Konzernmutter auszeichnet, ob der internationale Frauentag noch eine Relevanz hat, wie sich das Arbeitsumfeld des FM mit digitalen Technologien künftig verändert, warum Input-orientierte Verträge durch neue Vertragsmodelle ersetzt werden müssten und wie sie die 11.000 sogenannten Placemaker der ISS Deutschland auf die Herausforderungen der Branche einstellt. LinkedIn-Profil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gudrun-degenhart/

Elena Granata, docente di Urbanistica al Politecnico di Milano. Vicepresidente della Scuola di Economia Civile. È stata membro dello Staff Sherpa, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, G7/G20 (2020-21) sui temi della biodiversità e trasformazioni urbane. Tra i suoi ultimi libri: ‘EcoLove. Perché i nuovi ambientalisti non sanno ancora di esserlo' con Fiore de Lettera (2022, Edizioni Ambiente) e ‘Placemaker. Gli inventori dei luoghi che abiteremo' (2021, Einaudi)

Gooitske Zijlstra (design researcher with children - Placemaker from Zwolle, Netherlands)Gooitske Zijlstra is the founder of gooitz. Under that organization, she is working with different companies and interdisciplinary collectives for urban transformations and works on the generous city. She does that, among other things, through design and action research to provide multiple perspectives on our cities, villages, and rural areas. We will use the results to make an immediate impact. The sustainable development goals (SDGs) are the common thread through all the work that gooitz does.In collaboration with Placemaking Week Europe in Pontevedra.Read more https://placemaking-europe.eu/Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️All opinions expressed in each episode are personal to the guest and do not represent the Host of Urbanistica Podcast unless otherwise stated.Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin.Visit  Mustafasherif.com for collaborations and nominations or email me at info@mustafasherif.comFollow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRYAFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.Read more about AFRY https://afry.com/en KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKKEEP LOVING CITIES https://plus.acast.com/s/urbanistica. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As a mixed media artist, curator, community builder, and executive director of arts and culture at Baha Mar Resorts, John Cox is one of the most influential people in the Bahamian art scene. His expertise in showcasing and representing Bahamian artists combines culture into the visitors' experiences, linking art with travel.Recently named Rosewood's PlaceMaker, John has curated a collection of 100 works throughout Rosewood Baha Mar.

As a mixed media artist, curator, community builder, and executive director of arts and culture at Baha Mar Resorts, John Cox is one of the most influential people in the Bahamian art scene. His expertise in showcasing and representing Bahamian artists combines culture into the visitors' experiences, linking art with travel.Recently named Rosewood's PlaceMaker, John has curated a collection of 100 works throughout Rosewood Baha Mar.

Todor Kesarovski (PhD Research Fellow at University of Stavanger (Stavanger, Norway), Placemaker at |In|Formal Association Bulgaria & Europe)Links from our talk:- |In|Formal Association, https://www.facebook.com/InFormal.BG;- Tooltest Day, concept story: https://issuu.com/informal6/docs/toolteststory_final | initiative: https://placemaking-europe.eu/listing/tooltesting/;Visit Mustafasherif.com for collaborations and nominations or just email me at info@mustafasherif.comKeep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities❤️️.Follow Urbanistica and let's get in touch:InstagramFacebookYoutube channelThanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRY.AFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure. Read more about AFRY https://afry.com/en See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How can we rethink zoning to address the evolving needs of different communities? Case study: Oliver Exchange Building, featuring: Chris Dulaba, Placemaker, Beljan Development Corporation

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We meet David Engwicht, a Placemaker so passionate about great public design that he has turned his front and back gardens into parks for the community.

Episode 127 – This conversation is an invitation to cozy up by the fireplace, with a hot cup of your favorite spiced tea and intrumental music in the background. We hope you will enjoy it as 2021 gently comes to an end. Stephanie welcomes Christie Purifoy today. Christie describes herself as a gardener, writer and placemaker. She and Stephanie may only have met a few week ago, but it already feels like they have known each other much longer than that! That's how God works when He brings His children together, isn't it? And they invite you to join them for a whimsical conversation about all things spiritual—from a garden to an old red brick farmhouse, to all manner of human relationships under the canopy of heaven. Stephanie has enjoyed stepping into Christie's books, lingering there to taste and see the beauty of the Lord through creation and through relationships. Christie's unique writing style and whimsical storytelling is deeply attractive, and truly satisfying. Adding her books to your must-reads in 2022 would be a wonderful way to care for your soul! Christie Purifoy is a writer and gardener. Her favorite ordinary things include strawberry jam, homegrown flowers, and old books with someone else's notes in them. She lives with her husband and children at Maplehurst, a Victorian red brick farmhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania. Christie earned a PhD in English Literature from the University of Chicago before trading the classroom for a picket-fenced garden and an old writing desk. Today, she grows zucchini her four kids refuse to eat. The zucchini-loving chickens are perfectly happy with this arrangement. Christie believes that life, in all its pain and beauty and mystery, is a journey of love. Writing keeps her eyes wide-open to this astonishing reality.  You can pre-order Christie's latest book, Garden Maker, from any of these book sellers: https://www.christiepurifoy.com/garden-maker-book/ LIMITED TIME OFFER - Preorder and Receive Valuable Gardening Resources from Christie:  When you preorder Garden Maker, you'll receive a free three-month subscription to Christie's Black Barn Garden Club, a flower arranging guide, and a “plan your plot” printable to help you visualize your garden space. Redeeming your preorder is easy. Just order the book and return to this page to fill out the form: https://www.christiepurifoy.com/garden-maker-book/ Christie's first book, Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons, was published by Revell in 2016. Her newest book, Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and Peace, released in spring 2019 from Zondervan and is available wherever books are sold. See more of Maplehurst and meet Christie here. Support us!

Janice is joined by MaryAnne Gilmartin, Founder and CEO of MAG Partners LP, to discuss how she has been able to complete remarkable projects like the Barclays Center and The New York Times headquarters.tags: janice ellig, maryanne gilmartin, real estate, barclays center, new york times, new york, investment, mag partners, building, development

In today's episode, Ryan and Mariah talk to Chris Dulaba a Placemaker at Beljan Development all about what commercial infill is, what benefits it brings to neighbourhoods and how we can repurpose heritage buildings into beautiful community hubs. Chris Dulaba, RPP, MCIPChris is a Placemaker at Beljan Development with over fifteen years of experience as a planner and developer. Chris has been directly involved in the planning, design and development of various projects from large master-planned communities to small scale infill throughout western Canada and Ontario. At Beljan his primary role is managing the development team with a specific focus on acquisition, concept development, land use approvals and design development. Chris holds a Bachelor's degree in Planning from the University of Waterloo and a Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning Technology from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners and Alberta Professional Planners Institute. 

Poet, film-maker, and multi-talented creative, Nubia Yasin is in the studio today.. hip, hip, HOORAY! No really, we think she's phenomenal and her insights are powerful. We discuss how lasting change comes about by pushing culture, and how creatives push culture forward + take a deep dive into her 2020 TEDxMemphis talk, "The Placemaker, The Missionary, and The Conqueror."

An interview with Matt McPheely, founder of Chapel and Placemaker, based in Greenville, SC. On his life and his experience charting a different path from traditional development.

John Pattison is co-author of Slow Church: Cultivating Community as well as Besides the Bible. He is also the content manager for Strong Towns and co-host for The Membership podcast, a podcast about the life and work of Wendell Berry. John writes and speaks frequently on topics related to the neighborhood, the church, and the creative life. He lives with his family in rural Oregon.Christie Purifoy is a writer, gardener, podcast host, and placemaker. She is the author of two memoirs: Roots and Sky and Placemaker, and she also has a book of garden essays and photographs forthcoming from Harvest House. Christie earned her PhD in English Literature from the University of Chicago but traded the classroom for an old Pennsylvania farmhouse, Maplehurt, where she lives with her family.Books Mentioned in this Episode:If you'd like to order any of the following books,we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books(An independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger)Slow Church: Community in the Patient Way of Jesus by Chris Smith and John PattisonBesides the Bible: 100 Books that Have, Should or Will Create Christian Culture by Dan Gibson, Jordan Green and John PattisonRoots and Sky by Christie PurifoyPlacemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty and Peace by Christie PurifoyLibrary of America Wendell Berry SeriesMidnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam HigginbothamRound of a Country Year: A Farmer's Day Book by David Kline and Wendell BerryHogs are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions by Wes JacksonFarmer Boy (Little House #2) by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Crosswicks Journals by Madeleine L'EngleGardenmaker (forthcoming in 2022) by Christie PurifoyWintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine MaySkin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Isabel Dalhousie Series by Alexander McCall SmithIf you'd like to order any of the following books,we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books(An independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger)SUBSCRIBE to the ERB podcast on iTunes, Google, Spotify or wherever you access your favorite podcasts.

Phil Mayall, Board Director of Muse, doesn’t just change places – he changes people’s aspirations. Phil has been behind some of the region’s biggest placemaking and regeneration projects, from Vimto Gardens to the £2.5bn Salford Crescent project.  Discover alongside Lisa Morton how Phil creates spaces for communities to live, breathe and grow in Greater Manchester, the value of relationships and how it feels to know ‘that’s my building’. We Built This City is a series of conversations with some of the amazing Mancunians - born, bred or adopted – who put the heart into modern Manchester. A celebration of the human grit, determination and love found throughout the city, these episodes will lift you up, make you laugh and inspire you to leave our city in a better place. _ _ _ _ _ Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre. From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.  To celebrate the 24 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.   Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield: Via Phone: 01612361122 Via our website (http://www.rdpr.co.uk/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/roland_dransfield/) On Twitter (https://twitter.com/RDPRtweets)   On Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YW3lVDOWrE0QZlV6XjEtF?si=nEuISHWcRfCF8l3kHKRNSw)   Connect with Phil Mayall: Via Muse (https://www.musedevelopments.com/) On Twitter (https://twitter.com/PhilM_MuseNWW)

How can developers take a former factory, rich in history, and transform it into a successful retail powerhouse?  Today we're joined by Damon Hemmerdinger, Co-President at ATCO and Camp North End's Placemaker-in-Chief. Once used to produce Model Ts and Army missiles, this 76-acre historic industrial site now serves as a hub for creativity and innovation, as Charlotte's largest adaptive reuse project, in the heart of the North End Smart District.  Listen along as we take a deep dive into ATCO's plans for the project, discuss how public art and repurposing buildings became crucial to the redevelopment efforts, and why short-term leases are beneficial to both landlords and a sites trendy and "fresh" atmosphere.  

Vivian Doumpa (Urban Planner, Geographer and Placemaker) as one of editors of the book is sharing the story about the life of this book: the background, the editors, the aim, the content and much more. While urban planners may consider children when designing parks and playgrounds, few ask how their and their parents’ needs could be better met in the design of streets and other public spaces in neighbourhoods and city centres. The City at Eye Level (CAEL), an international platform advocating for more people-centred planning in urban development, seeks through this project to highlight and focus its scope on children and their parents. The City at Eye Level for Kids project aims to leverage the CAEL platform to advance the existing state of knowledge into scientific research into creating a child-friendly public realm. It will trial local placemaking approaches in Stockholm and Thessaloniki and develop a draft, open-source policy document for other cities and city-makers to use and develop further. Read or download the book  https://thecityateyelevel.com/app/uploads/2019/06/eBook_CAEL_Kids_Book_Design_Kidsgecomprimeerd.pdf   Follow #urbanistica Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/urbanistica.podcast/ Watch live talks and subscribe Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8msNnlQae3RcIqvjCUjUVA?view_as=subscriber #UrbanisticaPodcast is produced in collaboration with Landskapslaget AB (Landscape architecture, Urban planning and Design company based in Stockholm City, Sweden)  let's get in touch, email me on citylife.mustafa@gmail.com Facebook events https://www.facebook.com/urbanistica.podcast Visit my homepage for other projects/collaborations https://mustafasherif.com/ Note ! The sound quality of #UrbanisticaPodcast s' episodes that are recorded during #COVID19 time might not be perfect. Due to the online recording and the use of different types of microphones by guests and #MustafaSherif. Thank you so much for understanding and listening. Stay safe ! Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The places we live in and move through are a gift from the Creator, and they are also where He invites us to participate in the making of them. We shape the places, but the places also shape us. They are part of the molding and forming of who we become, and in today's episode we'll explore the book Placemaker by Christie Purifoy. It's part book review, part reflection and hopefully also part inspiration as you consider your own life journey and all the places within it. Join me?

This is a story about a checkerboard floor and running out of mashed potatoes. It's also an honest look at how we make sense of the hard limits we run into in our lives and our homes and what they say about us and about God. This is the second in a series of vulnerable stories as we work our way toward Lent. We invite you to join us as we unpack the frustration of the limits we experience in our homes and our lives.  Christie also shares the backstory of how she picked the new kitchen floor for Maplehurst; Lisa-Jo confesses some childhood ice cream scandals. Books referred to in this episode:  Placemaker  The Art of Gathering We share these stories to invite you deeper into your own story.  If today's episode resonated with you, please tell a friend about it, yes?

Shawn and Maile chat with author Christie Purifoy about why she got her PhD and then left teaching, what it's like for writing to keep surprising you, and how to balance (or not) the writing life with other minor things like family, a spouse, and real life. Christie's writing is beautiful, reminiscent of Madeleine L'Engle's nonfiction, and she is the author of the books Roots and Sky and Placemaker. She can also be found on Instagram at @christiepurifoy, @maplehurstgardens, and @maplehurstblackbarn. She also does a podcast with co-host Lisa-Jo Baker called "Out of the Ordinary." * * * * * Those in our Patreon community have already received bonus material from the interview that we're not sharing anywhere else about Christie's next book! If you'd like to hear this clip and be on the receiving end of similar exclusive, bonus audio material in the future, join our Patreon community at the $5 / month level. Finally, please leave a review wherever you listen! Reviews are so helpful. Keep writing!

In a world of constant chaos and conflict, homes are often the only places of peace where souls find rest. Christie Purifoy shares how she cultivates places of comfort, beauty, and peace in her new book, Placemaker. Christie Purifoy is a wife of 22 years and mother to their four children. She earned her PhD in English Literature at the University of Chicago before trading the classroom for an old farmhouse, a garden, and a writing desk. Christie is the co-host of the podcast, Out of the Ordinary, with Lisa Jo-Baker. She is also the author of two books: Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons. And her brand new book, Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and Peace. "We are all gardeners.” ~ Christie Purifoy Connect with Christie Purifoy BOOK: Placemaker Enjoy the multitude of topics discussed including Maplehurst, ownership, moving, and roses. Dr. of old books My garden Roses Placemaker Moving Guarding my heart See the trees The wilderness Not belonging Beauty The setting Created Control Humble posture Responsibility Magnolias City Living Maplehurst Plaster Hospitality Beloved Foundation Self doubt Flower garden Family Restoration A bit of earth Gardener What tree to be? New eyes to see   Connect with Christie Purifoy BOOK: Placemaker "I'm growing joy!" ~ Christie Purifoy    #MyStrengthIsMyStory #CreateYourNow #Placemaker Quotes and statements within the interview: "Even in winter, I'm thinking about flowers." "It's all about the roots." "Because I know my life on its own; it's ordinary. It's not necessarily book-worthy." "I just kept searching for some word that would sort of tie all the pieces of my life together." "They are the ones who are willing to sink their roots deep into a place to love it, to take care of it, to change it for the better. But even while they're tending it and cultivating it, they're letting that place affect them and change them, and make an impact on them." "I think of it as a legacy that's been handed down to me." "And that love, I realize now was like a seed planted in me that over time when the season was right, it grew and ripened." "At some point, people will close the book, step outside and listen to the trees, and listen to maybe the God who would whisper to them as they enjoy the piece of shade a tree offers." "But for me, it was always a place where I did not feel that fit." "I think it has helped me just connect the dots of my life." "My life is a good story written by a great author; my maker, our Creator." "The setting of our own story is important, and we get to shape it, and we should recognize how it shapes us." "It's been a process for me of letting go of those rights, but accepting the responsibilities of a place." "But what I have learned here about Placemaking is that we don't do it alone, that actually it's best done in community." "Sometimes a period of living without can really be a gift." "Can I clear space for peace and beauty?" "Let's live by trees planted by water." "God used that place to heal us really and impart His peace to us." "He (Jesus) is the perfect gardener."   What has your story gifted you? Flowers "The beauty of the flowers that my father grew when I was a kid, that it never occurred to me, I could cultivate myself or grow myself." "I gather up beauty."   Resources mentioned in the episode: Connect with Christie Purifoy BOOK: Placemaker Podcast: Out of the Ordinary Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christiepurifoy/   "One step at a time leads to miles of greatness!"   Subscribe to Create Your Now TV on YouTube. Listen to Create Your Now on Spotify and Pandora. Listen to Create Your Now on iHeart Radio. Click here. 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Ken Himmel is the President and CEO of Related Urban, the nation's leader of large-scale mixed-use developments. With over 30 years of experience, he has spearheaded multiple successful projects, all of which unite urban planning, residences and offices with exciting shopping, restaurants, and art venues. His ability to draw inspiration from local culture and lifestyle while also introducing innovative new concepts makes his projects vibrant and memorable destinations. We talk about: the convergence between retail, hospitality, real estate developments, the changes currently occurring in the industry, the unique programming strategies behind the composition of experiences, his upcoming project in Santa Clara, and more.   Interviewed by Mortimer Singer.

As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach, many of us will be hosting friends and family to celebrate. In this episode, we're joined by author Christie Purifoy to discuss her latest book, "Placemaker." We discuss the importance of creating spaces of beauty for the sake of others and how Christian hospitality is more significant than merely inviting people over for dinner.

It's Creator's Week on the podcast! Three episodes will be rolling out over the next week with three different guests who will each be sharing their unique, insightful takes on the creative life.Today's guest is Brian Kehoe, a Madison-based studio artist who has painted some incredible murals throughout the city. Hallie and Brian chat about his story as an artist, what it means to be a creative placemaker, and the role public art plays in nourishing a community.Creativity and art lovers, this week is for you! (Full show notes available at dailybitesblog.com) 

Our exploration of Identity and Action wraps with podcast producer Brad Stephens. In this episode, Brad and Douglas Jackson look back at the entire season. Of course, we'll talk about books, many of this seasons' guests and what these conversations are adding up to, touching on the following and more: empathy and books, books and the unlikeable, writing and wisdom, and the complexity of the self Brad has worked for years in finding ways to encourage positive action and support ambitious efforts to improve our community. He's also a good reader and in this episode, he shares some of the books from his shelf and even one he hasn't been able to make it through. He also tells of his journaling strategy, which might make an impression on you. www.bookcityroanoke.com

If you’re in the ellipsis in your own life right now, you might have more questions than answers, more furrowed brows than nodding heads. But there are some things you can still choose - like making a place where roots are lacking, like believing for sure that God is with you, like doing your next right thing in love. Links + Resources From This Episode: The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson A Million Little Ways Episode 24: Look for Arrows (Not Answers) Placemaker by Christie Purifoy All things Christie Purifoy Grab a copy of The Next Right Thing Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman Download Transcript

As gardeners we are many things, among these we are place makers. What does it mean to be a placemaker – what is learned, what is lost, what is gained in the making of any place. This week on Cultivating Place we consider the nature and meaning of placemaking with mother, gardener, and spiritual memoirist Christie Purifoy. She lives and gardens with her husband and four children at Maplehurst, a Victorian red brick farmhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.

Christie Purifoy, author of Roots and Sky and Placemaker, is a wife, mom of 4, and gardener who delights in the work and ministry of placemaking. You will walk away from today's chat built up and inspired to see your own home and place in a different light! What we Chat about in This Episode: ~Christie's books, Roots and Sky and Placemaker ~The beauty of Christie's book, Placemaker, what led her to write it, what readers can expect, and how it inspires folks to see the value of the work of placemaking ~The beauty of God's creation and the part it plays in our understanding and knowing of God and our growth in Him ~Placemaking being for everyone, and not just homemaking, home decorating types - because we were all made in the image of a creative, place-making God ~Turning creativity and placemaking into a true source of ministry ~How Christie's journey towards being a placemaker began ~Being a humble placemaker - not just imposing one's own will on a place, but also learning and growing by a place's influence on oneself ~The correlation between hospitality and placemaking - how they differ and how they are similar ~Introvertedness and serving others ~The challenges Christie faces in placemaking ~The financial aspect of placemaking; the financial care of Christie's home, Maplehurst ~A story of placemaking that Christie wanted to share with the listeners ~The correlation between placemakng and peacemaking ~The Purifoys experience of moving around a lot; placemaking for families and individuals with very nomadic lifestyles; how to send your roots down deep and be placemakers in an area when you may not live there very long ~Receiving and learning from a place before rushing to change it ~Practical tips and first steps for getting started placemaking ~The beauty of the small acts of noticing a place ~The gift of the wilderness places ~And more! Head to www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast for the full shownotes!

On this episode, the lovely Christi Purifoy is going to give us her beautiful and unique perspective on our homes and explain the heart behind her newest book Placemaker. Christi invites us to notice our soul's desire for beauty, our God-given need to create, and the spiritually rich lessons to be found in the process. For today's show notes, visit AudraHaney.com

Listen in as your host Blake chats with Christie - a writer, mother, wife, and enneagram 4.  In her new book, Christie shows readers what it means to be a placemaker, cultivating places of comfort, beauty, and peace. Our conversation challenges the idea of a what a home should look and feel like, and gives some tangible ways to create a true place. Find all the links from the episode in the show notes.

Episode 68 is going to open your eyes to the beauty that is already in front of you. You’ll learn a new term, Placmaking, as a way to embrace beauty, even in the middle of mess.  Christie Purifoy, the author of Placemaker, invites you to use the places and spaces of your life as a way of connection with God. You’ll be surprised to learn that Placemaking might call you to buy all new pillows for your living room or build a flower garden that you insisted was frivolous….but it certainly never requires it. Peacemaking is a method that will bring you closer to discovering yourself and loving others by enjoying the beauty of life that God provides.    My time with Christie was filled thoughts on cultivating our spaces so that they can teach us…and we can love others in that process.    Friends, I invite you to grab a copy of Placemaker for yourself or as a gift for someone who enjoys the lyrical pacing of being swept away on a journey of loving and learning about the beauty around them.   Christie’s Website http://www.christiepurifoy.com Buy the Book, Placemaker https://www.amazon.com/Placemaker-Cultivating-Places-Comfort-Beauty/dp/031035224X Christie’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/christiepurifoy/ MapleHurst Gardens: https://www.instagram.com/maplehurstgardens/    

Affiliate links are used in this content. This week’s episode of CTL is sponsored by ButcherBox. For 2 Lbs. of free ground beef in every monthly ButcherBox for the life of your membership. and $20 OFF your first box, go to butcherbox.com/lovely and enter Promo Code LOVELY at checkout. Show Notes- Today on the CTL podcast, MacKenzie Koppa interviews... Read more... You just finished reading CTLP Episode 107- Becoming a Placemaker with Christie Purifoy! Consider leaving a comment!

Christine chats with author Christie Purifoy about her ministry of what she calls "placemaking": cultivating a sense of home and place in a way that loves God and our neighbors well. She says placemaking is for everyone, no matter if you live in a dorm room or a high-rise in the city, no matter if you have the gift of hospitality or if you're an introvert. Christie shares practical and simple ways we can all be placemakers where we live, both in our homes and in our communities.LINKS FROM THE SHOWChristie's new book, Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and PeaceThank you to The Good Book Company for sponsoring today's episode! Find Melissa Kruger's new book, 5 Things to Pray For Your Kids, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Christianbook.com. Visit thegoodbook.com for more information.Connect with Christie PurifoyWebsite // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // PodcastConnect with ChristineBlog // Facebook // Instagram // Twitter // Books Subscribe to the "By Faith" PodcastiTunes // Stitcher // Google Play // SpotifyMusic for By Faith created by The Silver PagesArtwork for By Faith created by Reed Harmon

Christie Purifoy lives with her husband and four children at Maplehurst, a Victorian red brick farmhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania. Christie's new book Placemaker can be found here.  To inquire about lending your voice to the voices podcast, email Brandon here.

Christie Purifoy, PhD, Author of Placemaker shares what it truly means to be a placemaker.   http://www.christiepurifoy.com/placemaker-preorders/   Learn more about Lisa at LisaWhittle.com   Produced by Unmutable™

Christie Purifoy, PhD, Author of Placemaker shares what it truly means to be a placemaker.   "Making and tending good and beautiful places is not a dishonorable retreat from our troubled world, it is a holy pursuit. Like the God to whom we all belong, we are all placemakers."   http://www.christiepurifoy.com/placemaker-preorders/    Learn more about Lisa at LisaWhittle.com   Produced by Unmutable™

On the new episode of Graceologie my guest is Christie Purifoy, author of the new book, The Placemaker. We talk about the beauty of sinking your roots deep into the life and place you’re in today… even if that space is only temporary… even if it’s a place or season of frustration, loneliness or pain. Episode show notes:  www.gwensmith.net/graceologie/24 Graceologie on INSTA:  @graceologie Graceologie on FB: www.facebook.com/graceologie Graceologie Podcast website: www.gwensmith.net/graceologie SPONSOR:  www.FabFitFun.com / use code GRACEOLOGIE for 20% off your first box! Gwen Smith on INSTA:  @GwenSmithMusic Gwen Smith on FB:  www.facebook.com/GwenSmithMusic

Nick Fortugno is interested in making games for those of us who aren't gamers. Why? Because once you consent to entering an immersive narrative world, you are stepping outside the reality you inhabit and opening up the possibility of exploring new ways of being and of relating to yourself, ideas, others and the world. What else allows you to do that?? Among many things, Nick is one of the founders of Come Out and Play, a festival that turns cities into playgrounds. We talk about physical psychology as a tool for designing bodies for specific emotional outcomes and how urban designers have to choose between designing for what's comfortable for humans vs. what is good for the social fabric of humanity (

Andrea Miller is the artistic director and choreographer of Brooklyn's Gallim Dance. To experience Gallim is to step into a world where concepts that are sometimes difficult to express through words are translated into visceral experiences that at once feel uncanny, yet strangely familiar. Andrea spent the last year as the first choreographer-in-residence at the MET which was another inflection point in her journey as an artist in relentless pursuit of what is possible when the stage and the boundaries between performer and audience dissolve. In To Create A World, her latest work, “ideas can make their way - and at the same time be transformed and destroyed - through the body". If, as Andrea says, "you and I have the same body", how can we use dance - the art form of the city (per Jane Jacobs) - to reimagine how we encounter strangers in urban spaces? How can we dance with difference rather than reckon with it with our outdated brain structures? ++++ This is the first episode in a 5-part series about Designing Wild Bodies and Space. Check back here for explorations - a mix of conversations and nonfiction narrative - with a Placemaker, an Urban Geographer and an Interactive Narrative Designer. Thanks to Brad Clymer for the dope intro music and sound production!

You'd think a chat about beauty would be kinda, well, fluff. But you'd be WRONG. Listen in on this IMPORTANT conversation with author Christie Purifoy about finding, absorbing and reflecting the beauty all around us, wherever we are. Oh, and share this podcast for a chance to win your very own Isle of Misfit Mug - you know you want one!

This is the story of the secret shame we all carry about our houses. And the one thing that can free you from it. This is a story about Christie's house Maplehurst being adrift in a sea of mud and construction and the pungent smell of mushroom farms nearby. And what Lisa-Jo's daughter said to change how Christie sees/smells her house. There is nothing like the power of seeing your home and your life through someone else's eyes. For better or for worse. This week Christie admits her own secret house shame. Lisa-Jo admits all her judgy thoughts about Marie Kondo and they are both surprised by what they learn from this diminutive Japanese woman who is taking us all by storm in her new Netflix show. Do you have a secret shame about your home? Then this episode is especially for you! Listener invitation: We LOVE hearing from listeners. Take a screenshot of today's podcast and share it to Instagram. Then share a photo of a special spot in your home that has been kind to you. Be sure and tag Lisa-Jo @lisajobaker and Christie @christiepurifoy  so they see it! Pre-order Christie's new book Placemaker here. Want to shop Christie's garden favorites -- yes they're going to rebuild the garden we talk about in this episode! Shop Christie's garden right here. See more of Maplehurst and meet Christie here. See more of Lisa-Jo's daily, ordinary chaos over here. Want to get behind-the-scenes podcast extras in your in box? Sign up here. Discover Lisa-Jo's books here. Discover Christie's books here.

t's chatologie day again, well, let's face it…every day is chatologie day, Am I right?  It's always a great day to listen.  And today I'm excited to introduce you to my new friend, Christie Purifoy.  Christie has a wonderful new book coming out soon called Placemaker, and it is just soooo good.  It's a beautiful … Continue reading "Episode 83: Making Beautiful Spaces with Christie Purifoy"

In today’s episode, Mary Scott and Rachel sit down with Christie Purifoy. Christie is a wife, mom and a gardener. She and her family live in their Pennsylvania farmhouse called Maplehurst it is a DREAM… Her newest book Placemaker releases this March and it is a timely yet timeless reminder that the cultivation of good and beautiful places is not a retreat from the real world but a holy pursuit of a world that is more real than we know. A call to tend the soul, the land, and the places we share with one another. A reminder that we are always headed home. It was simply a lovely conversation about all things home and beautiful and we can’t wait for you to listen! show notes: behindtheblisspodcast.com/shownotes/28 BTB Insta: instagram.com/behindtheblisspodcast

This is the story of a Christmas baby. This season is all about gifts. We give gifts to one another, and we remember the very good gift of God's son, given to a weary world on the first Christmas Day. But is God still in the business of giving good gifts? Lisa-Jo tells the story of her own Christmas baby. It's a story of how shame and sorrow gave way to peace and joy. It's a story of good gifts freely given, no strings attached. If you feel discouraged, if God's goodness feels a little hard to grasp, we hope you'll listen and be reminded that something as small and ordinary as a baby can change everything. See more of Maplehurst and meet Christie here. See more of Lisa-Jo's daily, ordinary chaos over here. Want to get behind-the-scenes podcast extras in your in box? Sign up here. Discover Lisa-Jo's books here. This month only: pre-order Christie's new book Placemaker and receive a free gift!

This is the story of a how to be a Keeper of Seasons. We share our favorite do's and don'ts around the Advent and Christmas season. For example, DO give yourself a "get out of Advent free" card if you're a mom of littles or just a weary wanderer like so many of us. And DON'T stress celebrating the season in any way other than works for you and your people. We each share some of our favorite, most ordinary, most meaningful ways to savor the season we so often rush and stress through. We also remember our very first Christmas at Maplehurst with both our families under one roof. And we have a special gift for you this season! Special Free Gift for You: Thanksgiving through Christmas only An Illustrated Guide to the Four Seasons at Maplehurst. Like Book Pages Pulled from a Vintage Treasure. Printed in full color on quality paper, these prints are like illustrations pulled from an old almanac or diary. The separate black and white prints are ideal for adding your own artistic touch in watercolor or pencil. This illustrated guide, with inspiration for the kitchen, the garden, and the bookshelf, would make a meaningful gift, perhaps with a clipboard for display, bundled with art supplies, or included in a notebook of seasonal inspiration. If you package or display these creatively, I would love to see! Use the hashtag #weareplacemakers and tag me @christiepurifoy on Instagram. This is a special gift celebrating the upcoming release of Christie's new book: Placemaker. Only available during this gift-giving season. Pre-order your book before December 25 and we'll pop these lovely prints into your email inbox right away! Click here to get your free gift now.

In this episode I'm talking with special guest Gilbert Rochecouste about creating inspiring public places that reconnect and renew communities and more.In this episode discover,• What is Placemaking?• What are the benefits reaped for the public, councils, planners, developers, and businesses?• How is it used to create sustainable, empowered, engaged and resilient communities• How to create successful and authentic public spaces that people want to be in• How to become a facilitator of positive change and engage hard to get to groups• How can anyone become a PlaceMaker in their everyday livesGilbert is recognized locally and Internationally as a leading voice in creating great places for people. He has successfully worked with over 1000 cities, towns, main streets, universities, property developers, government organisations and communities over the past 25 years.Gilbert's bold ideas and projects have helped make Melbourne the most liveable city in the world.For more info on Gilbert and his company Village Well visit http://www.villagewell.orgOr connect on social media:Facebook https://www.facebook.com/villagewell/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilbert-rochecouste-7a556325/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/village.well/

In this episode I'm talking with special guest Gilbert Rochecouste about creating inspiring public places that reconnect and renew communities and more.In this episode discover,• What is Placemaking?• What are the benefits reaped for the public, councils, planners, developers, and businesses?• How is it used to create sustainable, empowered, engaged and resilient communities• How to create successful and authentic public spaces that people want to be in• How to become a facilitator of positive change and engage hard to get to groups• How can anyone become a PlaceMaker in their everyday livesGilbert is recognized locally and Internationally as a leading voice in creating great places for people. He has successfully worked with over 1000 cities, towns, main streets, universities, property developers, government organisations and communities over the past 25 years.Gilbert's bold ideas and projects have helped make Melbourne the most liveable city in the world.For more info on Gilbert and his company Village Well visit http://www.villagewell.orgOr connect on social media:Facebook https://www.facebook.com/villagewell/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilbert-rochecouste-7a556325/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/village.well/

After years working within social housing, Valli now works as a placemaker in East London, on a large site next to the River Lea. With the conversation ranging from her early career in South Africa, to embedding herself for years in an area to understand it better, Valli describes her life designing a neighbourhood that people want to live in. With responsibilities ranging from commissioning and working with artists to design pathways, to choosing who runs the schools in the new community, Valli offers a fascinating human glimpse behind the blanket label of ‘developer'. Watch the short film showing Valli at work at www.metierproject.org/valli-van-zijl

Products of the Mind Episode 7: Howard Blackson, Urban Designer, Placemaker, and Raconteur Welcome to Episode 7 of Products of the Mind. In this episode, I interview urban designer Howard Blackson. How does he create physical environments, and what are we not seeing when we look around our cities? Howard Blackson Howard Blackson is an urban designer; but since nobody seems to know what that is, he’s happy to educate us. In this episode we get some interesting history on urban design, including the fascinating connection between the Weimar Republic (the predecessor to Germany’s Nazi regime) and Harvard’s Design School. We’ll discuss the human habitat, also known as the “built environment,” and Howard will give us insights on issues such as: How do you start the design of a new city? Where do you put the center of a town? Is suburbia sustainable? Can we replicate the 1950’s? The discussion leads us to other quite interesting topics such as: utopianism; Frederick Law Olmsted’s plan for New York’s Central Park; design and economics (such as mixed-use buildings versus Walmart); and how homelessness, gentrification, and the housing crisis all relate to design. Do you know what you’re looking at when you drive around your city? What are you looking at without actually seeing? How do cultural cues and values impact design? How can you be involved with creating a better built environment? This and so much more with Howard Blackson. Learn more about Howard Blackson and his work here: http://howardblackson.com/ Stay up to date with Howard on Twitter: @hblackson Check out the non-profit San Diego news organization Voice of San Diego, which is mentioned in this episode, here: http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/ Thanks for Checking Out Products of the Mind! If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it by using the social media buttons you see at the top and bottom of this page. Also, please consider taking the few seconds it takes to leave an honest review and rating for the podcast on iTunes. They’re very helpful when it comes to the ranking of the show and I read every one. Finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or your favorite podcast app to get automatic updates every time a new episode goes live. Here are instructions on how to subscribe, rate, and review the show in iTunes. The Credits As always, the music for this episode was provided by Le Chateau. The track name is “Bury You.” Go buy it on Soundcloud! The illustration accompanying these show notes is by Whit Harris. This episode and these show notes © 2015 David Lizerbram

This week we chat with Placemaker Scott Doyon (Facebook / Web) about the Oakhurst Porchfest, a grassroots music festival held in Decatur, GA. Scott also wrote about the event on the Placemaker's blog. 

Andrew Dixon was the keynote speaker at the 2015 Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) National Congress. He is an agent of change in the revitalisation of cities in the UK. Andrew is not a city planner or architect his background is in the arts. We at PX describe him as a 'place - smith'. Andrew talks of the benefits of cultural awareness and various 'identifiers' of different places. In a world of 'High Street sameness' and homogeneity compelled by mass marketing and retail economics, Andrew calls for cities and towns to celebrate their identity and bring the arts and cultural events to the forefront. In this process of revitalisation, different elements of the city community must pull together. Andrew has worked extensively in Newcastle/Gateshead, Scotland and Hull. He believes broader perspectives including the input of artists will benefit enlivening urban spaces and help foster pride in place. He encourages the arts to be brought to the people and the people to be brought to the arts. The interview will hopefully be enjoyable for all those interested in city enhancement and urban planning. The interview took place during the PIA National Congress. We are very grateful to PIA for this opportunity. The podcast was first released in May 2015 and remixed in November 2015. Future interviews will be released on a monthly basis. See the website www.planningxchange.org for further details.   Intro - Breezy House by Qronix, Outro - Cacophany by Qronix http://www.soundcloud.com/qronix/

Leni Stoeva is excited to be apart of the growing change in Soulsville of Memphis through her role as Creative Place Maker at Community Lift. Born in Bulgaria and raised in Memphis, TN, she works on programming art related events in the area as well as social and historical neighborhood activities in the soon to be music district that is Soulsville, USA. Community LiftFacebookTwitter

ABSTRACT: Drawing on four decades of practical and teaching experience worldwide, Nabeel Hamdi offers fresh insight into the complexities faced by practitioners when working to improve the lives and livelihoods of people the world over. The presentation draws from Hamdiʼs upcoming book of the same title, showing how these complexities are a context for, rather than a barrier to, creative work. Hamdi critiques the ʻsingle visionʼ top down approach to design and planning. The presentation will demonstrate through examples and profiles of successful professional practice drawn from across Europe, the US, Africa, Latin America and post- tsunami Asia, how good policy can derive from good practices when ʻreasoned backwards,ʼ as well as how plans can emerge in practice without a preponderance of planning. Reasoning backwards is shown to be a more effective and inclusive way of planning forwards with significant improvements to the quality of process and place. BIOGRAPHY: Nabeel Hamdi qualified as an architect at the Architectural Association in London in 1968. He worked for the Grater London Council between 1969 and 1978, where his award-winning housing projects established his reputation in participatory design and planning. From 1981-1990 he was Associate Professor of Housing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was later awarded a Ford International Career Development Professorship. In 1997 Nabeel won the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour for his work on Community Action Planning, and the Masters course in Development Practice that he founded at Oxford Brookes University in 1992 was awarded the Queenʼs Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2001.