Podcast appearances and mentions of urban land

In this episode, I speak with Heather House, a manager in RMI's carbon-free transportation program, and Rushad Nanavatty, the head of Third Derivative, an early-stage climate tech accelerator co-founded by RMI, to better understand the role of urban land use in the overall climate picture. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribe

In this week's episode we take a different look into what one normally thinks land conservation is. Instead of wide-open landscapes, untouched by development, we are  focusing on urban land stewardship.  With the help of the Executive Director of the High Line Canal Conservancy, Harriet LaMair, we  take a look into how local non-profits help protect open spaces in urban and suburban areas, as well as how you can become involved at a local level. Join us to see what we found out!For more information on The High Line Canal Conservancy please visit highlinecanal.org . And for Colorado Gives Day please visit coloradoshares.org.Panel: Haley Mirr, and Harriet LaMairNeed professional help finding, buying, or selling a legacy ranch, contact us:Mirr Ranch Group901 Acoma StreetDenver, CO 80204Phone: (303) 623-4545https://www.MirrRanchGroup.com/

Rick Flynn Presents is pleased to welcome to our show author and real-estate expert/attorney at law DANIEL DAIN to our program. What makes a city great and successful? The answer is innovation. Although the title of his new #1 Amazon book is "The History of Boston" don't let the title fool you. This book is for anyone who wishes to be, not only entertained, but educated by the amazing tales of tales of such great cities such as Boston, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Dubai. Boston is today one of the world's greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home of the Great Puritan Migration, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the first civil rights movement, the abolition movement, and the women's rights movement. But the city that gave us the first use of ether as anesthesia, the telephone, technicolor film, and the mutual fund―the city where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott founded their world-changing partnership―was also the hub of the anti-immigration movement, the divisive busing era, and decades of self-inflicted decay. Boston has the most important history of any American city. Yet its history has never been given a comprehensive treatment until now. Join Dan Dain as he acts as your tour guide from the arrival of First Peoples up to the election of Boston's first woman and person of color as mayor. Dain's masterful work explores the policies and practices that took Boston from its highest heights to its lowest lows and back again, and examines the central role that density, diversity, and good urban design play in the success of cities like Boston. Here is an 832-page book for you in both hardcover and Kindle format and is available wherever books are sold including Amazon. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rick-flynn/support

France has passed legislation that will require all parking lots with more than 80 spaces to be covered over by solar panels.  This is part of a broader effort to put solar panels on vacant lots, empty land alongside roadways and train tracks, and even some farmland.  The overall program would add 11 gigawatts of […]

DetroitMichael Poris, AIA, is founding principal of McIntosh Poris Associates, a full-service architecture, interior and urban design practice in Birmingham, MI. Since returning to Detroit in 1995, Michael has been working to implement change in his hometown preserving many of Detroit's 20th-century landmark buildings, historic districts, and iconic neighborhoods.Michaels design leadership has helped transform Detroit with projects such as the Foundation Hotel, and the East Riverfront framework plan. His work has won over 130 design awards including 30 AIA Honor awards, 70 Detroit Design Awards and been published in over 100 publications worldwide including Dwell, Urban Land, Architectural Record, and Interior Design. Michael is currently working on an adaptive reuse of the 600,000sf Fisher Body plant in Detroit, and a 600 prefabricated home community in Colorado.Michael was recently awarded the AIA Detroit Charles Blessing award recognizing an individual who shows leadership in planning and civic issues and exemplifies the vision, commitment and the accomplishments of Charles A. Blessing, the visionary Detroit city planner, who committed himself to the pursuit of a higher quality of life for all.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Detroit with Michael Poris.Learn more about Michael at McIntosh Poris Associates, and connect with him on LinkedIn.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Freshbooks is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

Does the Urban Land Ceiling Act in West Bengal prevent establishments from expanding? Sudisha Mishra invites Rahul Sanghavi to discuss the land laws that have curtailed business growth in West Bengal, inadvertently impacting job creation in the state.Further readings:Development and Displacement: Land Acquisition in West BengalLand Laws of West Bengal – An OverviewThe Messy Politics of Land Acquisition in West BengalYou can follow Sudisha Mishra on twitter: https://twitter.com/sudishamishraCheck out Takshashila's courses: https://school.takshashila.org.in/You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at https://shows.ivmpodcasts.com/featuredDo follow IVM Podcasts on social media.We are @IVMPodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram.https://twitter.com/IVMPodcastshttps://www.instagram.com/ivmpodcasts/?hl=enhttps://www.facebook.com/ivmpodcasts/Follow the show across platforms:Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Gaana, Amazon MusicDo share the word with you folks!

Mulder und Scully gehen steil mit Alien-Theorien. Setz auf deinen Aluhut und funke mit uns in den Nachthimmel zu den Tictac-Ufos! Geht natürlich auch um "richtige" Themen wie den bald anstehenden Factory Day, die Berlin Tattoo Convention und natürlich die Urban Land in Rom, auf der sich Seb diese Woche befindet. Qapla'

Today's question comes from Marc in Montreal who writes: We own a midtown Strip Mall where there is an adjoining property worth $1.3M which has 18 parking spots. It has a restaurant on the property that will be shutting down in 6 months due to retirement. A developer has an offer on the land for $2M, and would probably let me purchase it for $2.1M. Our strip mall has long term leases in an aging building. I see a scenario where a Land Assembly could convert it all to a 3 storey mixed use building with underground parking that would surely yield profit above and beyond both projects. What are the possible short term or long term strategies that we could take with this project? I am considering a multi-phase project whereby I tear down the restaurant, build some commercial units, move my commercial tenants there, then tear down HALF my existing building, move some of my tenants there, and then the last Phase? 3 Phases, and every tenant ends up moving. After the last Phase, I simply fill the remaining spaces. On the 2nd and 3rd floor, I would have residential units. Either Condos or rentals. Is the extra $800K to purchase the corner property worth it? I am not sure exactly how to do a napkin calculation on this, but I imagine price per square foot to build minus price per square foot to rent is the way to go, minus all kinds of carrying costs and commercial tenant improvements. All of the commercial tenants have different long term expiration dates on their commercial leases, ranging from 7-15 years. Let me know if you have any thoughts. ------------------- Host: Victor Menasce email: podcast@victorjm.com

Patrick Condon joins us this week for our discussion on sustainable urban planning. Mr. Condon received his master's in landscape architecture from Umass Amherst and has over 25 years of experience in sustainable urban design. Patrick started his academic career in 1985 at the University of Minnesota before moving to the University of British Columbia in 1992. After acting as the director of the landscape architecture program, he became the James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments. As Chair, he worked to advance sustainable urban design in numerous neighborhoods in the US, Canada, and Australia. Mr. Condon's newest book, Sick City: Disease, Race, Inequality, and Urban Land, features throughout our discussion and is available online. Together we discussed different housing policies across the world, Georgist land taxes, and how cities and towns can become more sustainable.

Today on the show we have Daniel Omeiza, a doctoral student in the computer science department of the University of Oxford, who joins us to talk about his work Efficient Machine Learning for Large-Scale Urban Land-Use Forecasting in Sub-Saharan Africa.

About Bill Browning:Bill's Profile: linkedin.com/in/bill-browning-a6b29227Website: terrapinbrightgreen.com  (Company Website)Email: bill@terrapinbg.comBio:Bill Browning is one of the green building and real estate industry's foremost thinkers and strategists, and an advocate for sustainable design solutions at all levels of business, government, and civil society. His expertise has been sought out by organizations as diverse as Fortune 500 companies, leading universities, non-profit organizations, the U.S. military, and foreign governments.Early in his career, Bill helped build Buckminster Fuller's last experimental structure. In 1991, he founded Green Development Services at the Rocky Mountain Institute, an entrepreneurial, non-profit “think and do tank”. His consulting projects at RMI included new towns, resorts, building renovations, and high-profile demonstration projects including Wal-Mart's Eco-mart, the Greening of the White House, the National Aquarium, Disney Hong Kong, the Pentagon, Lucas Film, Grand Canyon National Park and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Village. In 1999 Green Development Services was awarded the President's Council for Sustainable Development/Renew America Prize.Beginning in 2004, Bill was the Director of Design and Environment for Haymount, a New Urbanist community in Virginia. In this capacity he led the development's site planning, authored a set of design guidelines, and guided development of innovative infrastructure systems. In 2005 he co-founded Browning+Bannon LLC, an independent real estate and consulting firm focused on environmentally responsive development.Bill was a founding member of the U.S. Green Building Council's Board of Directors, and served as Chair of USGBC's Governance Committee. Over the years Bill has served on the Boards of Greening America, the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education, RealEnergy, the Roaring Fork Conservancy, and ioby. He has also served on The Nature Conservancy Real Estate Advisory Council, ASTM Green Building Rating Committee, and the Department of Defense's Science Board Energy Task Force, the AIA National Committee on the Environment, the Department of State's Overseas Building Office Advisory Council, the Real Estate Advisory Council for the Trust for Public Land, the Interface “Green Dream Team.” He is a GSA national peer, and editorial advisor for Environmental Building News, Environmental Design & Construction Magazine, and Green @ Work.In addition to consulting, Bill writes and lectures widely on sustainable design and building practices. He is a co-author of Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate; A Primer on Sustainable Building; Greening the Building and the Bottom Line; and Biophilic Design; The Economics of Biophilia and Midcentury (un)Modern. He has published articles in Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Urban Land, and AIA's Environmental Resource Guide. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle and Popular Science, among others, and he has been interviewed by NPR, CNN, and PBS.Bill received a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Design from the University of Colorado, specializing in energy-conscious architecture and resource management. He holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the MIT Center for Real Estate's 1991 Public-Sector Fellowship, and, in 1995, the Charles H. Spaulding Award. In 1998 Bill was named one of five people “Making a Difference” by Buildings magazine. In 2001 he was selected as an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, and in 2004 he was honored with the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership Award.In 2006, Bill founded Terrapin with longtime partners Bob Fox, Rick Cook and Chris Garvin to craft high-performance environmental strategies for corporations, governments, and large-scale real estate developments. Our diverse clients include Cacique Resort in Costa Rica, Starwood's Element hotel brand, NRDC, PNB Malaysia, New Songdo City in Korea, InterfaceFLOR, Bank of America and the National Geographic Society. Bill is based in Washington, D.C.BIll  Browning is the co-author, along with his colleague and Catie Ryan Balagtas, of the new book "Nature Inside - A Biophilic Design Guide, available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Inside-biophilic-design-guide/dp/1859469035About David Kepron:LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/david-kepron-9a1582bWebsites:  https://www.davidkepron.com    (personal website)vmsd.com/taxonomy/term/8645  (Blog)Email: david.kepron@NXTLVLexperiencedesign.comTwitter: DavidKepronPersonal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidkepron/NXTLVL Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nxtlvl_experience_design/Bio:David Kepron is a multifaceted creative professional with a deep curiosity to understand ‘why', ‘what's now' and ‘what's next'. He brings together his background as an architect, artist, educator, author, podcast host and builder to the making of meaningful and empathically-focused, community-centric customer connections at brand experience places around the globe. David is a former VP - Global Design Strategies at Marriott International. While at Marriott, his focus was on the creation of compelling customer experiences within Marriott's “Premium Distinctive” segment which included: Westin, Renaissance, Le Meridien, Autograph Collection, Tribute Portfolio, Design Hotels and Gaylord hotels. In 2020 Kepron founded NXTLVL Experience Design, a strategy and design consultancy, where he combines his multidisciplinary approach to the creation of relevant brand engagements with his passion for social and cultural anthropology, neuroscience and emerging digital technologies. As a frequently requested international speaker at corporate events and international conferences focusing on CX, digital transformation, retail, hospitality, emerging technology, David shares his expertise on subjects ranging from consumer behaviors and trends, brain science and buying behavior, store design and visual merchandising, hotel design and strategy as well as creativity and innovation. In his talks, David shares visionary ideas on how brand strategy, brain science and emerging technologies are changing guest expectations about relationships they want to have with brands and how companies can remain relevant in a digitally enabled marketplace. David currently brings his creativity and insight on brand experiences to an international audience as a member of VMSD magazine's Editorial Advisory Board, as a Board Member of the Interactive Customer Experience Association (ICXA) and Sign Research Foundation's (SRF) Program Committee.He has held teaching positions at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.), the Department of Architecture & Interior Design of Drexel University in Philadelphia, the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising (L.I.M.) in New York, the International Academy of Merchandising and Design in Montreal and he served as the Director of the Visual Merchandising Department at LaSalle International Fashion School (L.I.F.S.) in Singapore.  In 2014 Kepron published his first book titled: “Retail (r)Evolution: Why Creating Right-Brain Stores Will Shape the Future of Shopping in a Digitally Driven World” and he is currently working on his second book to be published soon. David also writes a popular blog called “Brain Food” which is published monthly on vmsd.com. In September of 2020, he launched the “NXTLVL Experience Design” podcast which brings listeners dialogues about “DATA: Design, Architecture, Technology and the Arts.” His guests include thought leaders who are driven by a passion to create the ‘New Possible' and promote new paradigms of experiences into the mainstream. 

Eric Crampton from the New Zealand Initiative joins us once again. Tonight he's looking at urban land use planning systems and asking if they're fit for purpose.

Azby Brown is a researcher, architect, artist and author who wrote a stunning book on Japanese modern small house designs in 2012 called, 'The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space' with a forward by Kengo Kuma. Azby will introduce some of the key concepts of the book such as utility of design for comfort, function and beauty. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jjwalsh (Support My Work + Get Bonus Insights on BuyMeACoffee) BGM Music by https://soundcloud.com/hikosaemon (@Hikosaemon available on SoundCloud) The Very Small Home Book: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjJHNmF5OEw3OWJtTnN3NGluTmFlelRLZ1EtZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttdnB4bm04SFU4WUE0amQwSUd3Y2FESzJmVjRvSW82dmNSc3hfc3BUQUNWMVlRN0FYWFhEbkNfZjRHclRrZjc5eUNyaU1mNjV2Ry1yMjFKX2Q2T0tla1lRaFNuTUx4cU84NGhaazAwMTV6eHFVVmNYQQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F37czsF2 (https://amzn.to/37czsF2)​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=90s (01:30)​ Shoin Tsukuri Style (traditional) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=300s (05:00)​ Bringing Outside Views Inside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=390s (06:30)​ 1000 year old small house designs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=500s (08:20)​ Traditional Design 150 year ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=600s (10:00)​ 1952 Japanese Minimalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=710s (11:50)​ 9-tsubo house for family of 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=740s (12:20)​ Kyosho-Jutaku Micro-Home Trend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=830s (13:50)​ 2000's notable small home trend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=900s (15:00)​ Tadao Ando 4x4 Seaview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=960s (16:00)​ Big Idea - Strong "Impact" Feature of a Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=1030s (17:10)​ Nakai-Ikegami House Borrowed Landscape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=1125s (18:45)​ Engawa House TezukaxTezuka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=1435s (23:55)​ 9-Tsubo Aioi-Sumire Budget Build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=1495s (24:55)​ House pricing in Japan vs Abroad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=1600s (26:40)​ Urban Land high-prices as precious resource https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=1740s (29:00)​ Tiny House Trend worldwide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=1860s (31:00)​ Few Mobile Homes but Many Pre-Fabricated Homes in Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=1980s (33:00)​ Houses can last 100s of years if built well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=2065s (34:25)​ Low resell value for Old Homes vs New Homes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=2420s (40:20)​ The BIG IDEA - Impactful House Design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=2460s (41:00)​ The Wedge House Endoh + Ikeda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=2700s (45:00)​ Steel Lattice Design Amazing Engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=2760s (46:00)​ Penguin House - Flexed Steel Design + Curtains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=2940s (49:00)​ Tax incentives for building homes for long-term https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=3100s (51:40)​ Great Design House Tours in Tokyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZ_hiYFaAQ&t=3530s (58:50)​ TR house with kitchen/living on top with wrap windows Support this podcast

On today's episode, Chris is joined by Jason Baxter, President and COO of Fort Capital to discuss the ways in which they think about the process around assembling and entitling land. They break down the due diligence work needed, why you need to know the end-user, what it's like entering under contract, and the importance of getting people on your side through zoning.  We’re planning on doing more episodes like these in 2021. If you have any questions on how we operate at Fort Capital, email us at thefortpodcast@gmail.com and we may just make an episode dedicated to it! Follow Chris on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/FortWorthChris Follow Chris on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/chrispowersjr/ Learn more about Chris Powers & Fort Capital: www.FortCapitallp.com (01:59) - What do Entitlements mean? (02:44) - What is the due diligence process we do before buying a property we want to entitle? (04:30) - Which city official do you try to set a meeting with to learn the future plan for an area? (06:10) - Easements in Due Diligence (08:17) - Environmental Issues VCP- Voluntary Clean-Up Process (12:18) - Determining Your Price to Pay and Value (15:37) - Knowing Your End-User (16:58) - Making an Offer that Can Close Quickly and Making Plans to Approach Sellers (27:07) - Moving Quickly to Avoid the Word Getting Out to Other Real Estate Investors (30:14) - Be Willing to Put in the Effort (32:13) - Factors like NextDoor and Your City’s Vision (35:26) - What We Do Once We’ve Bought a Property and What it's Like to Enter into a Contract (38:22) - What do future developers need to be able to close? What does a typical contract look like so expectations are met by both parties? (42:57) - Getting Plans Ready for a Permit & Zoning (45:05) - Getting People on Your Side When Going Through the Zoning Process (52:48) - Wrap Up The FORT with Chris Powers is produced by Straight Up Podcasts

BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE Eve Picker: [00:00:17] Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing. My guest today is Christopher Leinberger. Chris has had a singular career working on urban land use issues, as a strategist, teacher, developer, researcher and author.   Eve: [00:00:47] Growing up in the 1960s and 70s, Chris was actively involved in community affairs and social change issues. He learned the value of connecting coursework and theory with hands-on community engagement early on. Although he first put his business degree to work in the corporate world, Chris found he wanted to run his own organization and opted to take over management, and then ownership, of Robert Charles Lesser & Company, now RCLCo. At the time, it was a one-office, real estate consulting firm in Southern California. RCLCo became one of the largest real estate advisory firms in the U.S., with four offices nationally, by 2000. Chris's new venture is a startup – Places Platform. This is a project he audaciously hopes will become "the Bloomberg of real estate and the built environment," developing tools and methodologies to measure economic, social equity and environmental conditions in cities and metropolitan areas. Be sure to go to EvePicker.com to find out more about Chris on the show notes page for this episode. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small Change.   Eve: [00:02:25] So, welcome to the show, Christopher. It's really nice to have you here.   Christopher Leinberger: [00:02:29] Really pleased to have a chance to chat with you.   Eve: [00:02:32] I read some of your bios, and the common theme in your development work is the one you discovered when you were eight years old, the value of well-developed, walkable urban land. And I'm wondering how that theme came to take center stage in your professional life?   Chris: [00:02:50] Well, it took me about 20 years to realize that that was what was driving me, from the age of eight – how we build our cities and why are certain blocks, certain places, vital and other places are not. And I didn't know that at age eight. But that's the basis of urban economics. But I thought that was just kind of a childhood fancy. And after business school, I went to work for two corporations and found out very quickly that I make a terrible employee and went to work with a small consulting firm in Beverly Hills, California, that I eventually bought three years later, Robert Charles Lesser and Company. And that, basically, was a firm that I could now explore how we build our cities and what makes certain places vital and others not so.   Eve: [00:03:47] And what did you discover along the way? It must have been pretty difficult setting out on this path.   Chris: [00:03:55] Well, certainly, this is back in the early 80s, and drivable suburban development was the thing in vogue. And in fact, this consulting firm, which did market studies, financial feasibility, I introduced strategic planning for both real estate companies and places, like downtowns. And I expanded the company from just a West Coast operation to a national, in fact, you know, we did a lot of work abroad, until I sold the company in 2000. It's still very active today. It's much bigger than when I was running it, back in 2000. But it was a little depressing to look at the fact that the market seemed to only want masterplanned communities and subdivisions and, you know, strip malls. And that's what we were doing in the 80s. The market studies and the financial feasibility were all about, you know, this drivable suburban stuff that we in this country invented. But then towards the end of the 80s, it really kind of started with a project I did in Downtown Chattanooga, which was a strategy for Downtown Chattanooga, the first downtown strategy I've ever done. And we pulled this strategy together with the city, with the place manager, River Valley Partners, and the county and the banking community and all sorts of ... and the great civic sector, just a remarkable civic sector. And we put together a strategy. 14 points to it. And within three years, 13 of the 14 were done.   Eve: [00:05:37] Wow.   Chris: [00:05:37] And it was off to the races. And so, I've stayed in, I've stayed involved with Downtown Chattanooga for the last 30 years. It's just been a remarkable turnaround. So, there I found that, good lord, people actually may want this walkable, urban stuff that, that really was so attractive to me when I was eight.   Eve: [00:05:55] Right. Yeah, I think I always dreamed about living above a coffee shop in a downtown.   Chris: [00:06:04] I always dreamed of living on a penthouse of a 1920s apartment building, you know, condo, co-op, whatever, and having a deck all around you and having the cage elevator take you up to it, and so ...   Eve: [00:06:21] Fabulous.   Chris: [00:06:22] Anyway, I got the cage elevator. The building I live in, it's five stories on Mass Ave, and it has the oldest elevator in town, which is a cage elevator that comes right up to our floor.   Eve: [00:06:35] How about the deck all around? No?   Chris: [00:06:38] No, didn't get that. The 'deck all around' is just about to become about 108 solar panels.   Eve: [00:06:45] Oh wow, and I got the coffee shop after about 20 years of trying so ... Just an aside, I'm especially in awe of your advisory role in Walk Score, which is a tool that I use every day, apparently with four million other people. So, that's an amazing tool that's emerged out of your interest, as well.   Chris: [00:07:06] Yes, I was on the initial board of Walk Score before, and then, of course, it was bought by Redfin, so that board went away. But I have loved the folks at Walk Score. I still use them, you know, in my research at Brookings and George Washington University. And now, in my next phase of life with Places Platform, which is my startup, that is basically Sim City for real, and Walk Score is foundational to that.   Eve: [00:07:37] So, I use it. I developed a Change Index for my crowdfunding platform, Small Change, and I use it to identify, you know, where projects are that walk in the door are located, like every day. It's a fabulous tool.   Chris: [00:07:51] It's remarkable. And the other thing that a number of us have found is that in walkable urban places, Walk Score above 60 yields tremendous value enhancement. You know, here in D.C., on the for-sale residential side, one Walk Score point above 60 yields about a 10-dollar-per-square-foot increase in value of a house or a condo.   Eve: [00:08:22] That's pretty amazing.   Chris: [00:08:22] That's huge. Places Platform just did our beta test in Grand Rapids, Michigan. So, this is a Midwestern town, small Midwestern town, not exactly a bi-coastal sort of place. And in the office market, one Walk Score point increases office valuations by a buck a square foot.   Eve: [00:08:44] Wow.   Chris: [00:08:45] And that's, again, for a town that an office sells for 180 to 200 bucks per square foot, one Walk Score point equals a one percent increase in valuation. That's pretty significant.   Eve: [00:08:58] So, I'm proud to say my Walk Score is, I think, 99.   Chris: [00:09:01] Wow, well that's impressive. My Walk Score's 92. I live within about four blocks of Dupont Circle.   Eve: [00:09:11] I live downtown in Pittsburgh, so you really, no, that's pretty simple.   Chris: [00:09:14] Yes, it's great.   Eve: [00:09:16] You know, I first became aware of your work when, when I was struggling with a capital stack for a little catalytic development project. And I heard about the Albuquerque project and 'patient money,' and those of us who do this sort of development know that it's very difficult to get traditional financing to accomplish groundbreaking projects. And I just love you to talk a little bit about how you approached that when you started that project, and, in general.   Chris: [00:09:45] It starts with an understanding that there is no such thing as new ideas. As you may have also seen or heard, my favorite urban movie is "Back to the Future," and it's the most important urban movie ever made that is popular because it shows the two ways of building: drivable sub-urban and walkable urban, in three different time periods. The 1950s, which was really a reflection of the early 20th century, 1985 when the movie came out, which showed how we completely disinvested in our downtowns and all the energy, and all the money, shifted to regional malls and business parks, and, of course, subdivisions. And then the near distant future, that again this 1980s view of the near distant future, which showed downtowns coming back. And the suburbs going into decline, and who'd have thunk that ...   Eve: [00:10:46] Yeh.   Chris: [00:10:46] ... in the 1980s. Well, that near distant future was 2015. So, these writers of the movie nailed it, and none of us in the 1980s were thinking that the cities were going to come back that quickly and that well. So, you look at how we used to finance, and much of the money in the capital stack... You know, the capital stack is going to be comprised of two basic categories – equity, you know, cash at risk, and debt, money you get from banks at very cheap interest rates. So, by definition, the equity is the risk capital and it goes in first and comes out last. And with a 'Back to the Future' financing approach, that, you've got to have 40, 50, 60 percent of your capital stack being equity, and most of that being 'patient equity.' It's not looking for an internal rate of return of 25 percent. It's going to be put in. It's going to get paid back when the project matures. You know, don't bother measuring it. Just recognize that it's there for the mid- and long-term. And if you realize that, in walkable urban real estate, you can make a bloody fortune. But you just can't make it in three to five years.   Eve: [00:12:18] But we have pretty impatient investors right now who want to make that sort of return quickly. Two years.   Chris: [00:12:25] Oh, yeah, oh yeah.   Eve: [00:12:26] That's frustrating for me with my platform, because, you know, some ... these projects that I think are so important for the future have a very hard time getting equity.   Chris: [00:12:41] So, you have to be creative, of course, and most the important thing to be creative about is making sure that the land invested in your deal is invested patiently. So, the best example... I'm in partnership with Robert Davis in my development company. Now, we're both, at this point, limited partners with our development company, which is called Arcadia Land Company, based in Center City, Philadelphia. But Robert's best known for the project, Seaside, on the panhandle of Florida. And it's the first New Urbanist project. And Robert got 80 acres from his grandfather as his inheritance on what was then known as the Redneck Riviera. This is where the country boys from Alabama would go down to the beach and drink. And Robert looked at this as a patient equity investment, and slowly but surely came up with a great urban plan, and slowly invested in the infrastructure, block by block. And he sold his first one eighth of an acre lot for ten thousand dollars. He sold his last one eighth of an acre lot for two million dollars ...   Eve: [00:14:02] Oh wow.   Chris: [00:14:02] ... 25 years later.   Eve: [00:14:04] Wow.   Chris: [00:14:04] And he still owns Downtown Seaside. It's worth a bloody fortune, with condo prices at 1,500 bucks a square foot. That's what the ancients knew how to do. And that's what the Grosvenors in London knew how to do 400 years ago. They were just, you know, farmers that happened to own this farm that became the West End of London. And they never sold the land. They just had long-term leases, and became one of the top 20 wealthiest families on the planet because they invested long-term. So, we have lots of examples, just not that many currently, as we have this 'get rich quick' mentality   Eve: [00:14:49] We really do, don't we? Interesting. What's your favorite project that you've worked on?   Chris: [00:14:56] My second project. I was still running and owning Robert Charles Lesser and Company and got hired by a Seattle family to redevelop a shipyard in Kirkland, Washington, right on Lake Washington, right across Lake Washington from Downtown Seattle. They built Liberty ships there during the Second World War. And this family also happened to own the Seattle Seahawks at the time, and they had their practice field there. And so, they asked me to figure out what to do with it. And we came up with this pretty, at that point, wacky idea of high density, mixed use, walkable urban – a new marina, office, hotel, retail around a plaza, rental apartments, condos, and from day one, decked parking, highly expensive to build, so we could get the kind of density that we needed. And the east side of the Seattle metro area, at that point, you did not charge for parking. So, this was an incredible investment with zero return as far as the parking goes. And everybody, you know, Urban Land looked at it and said, you're crazy. And I mean, even the office brokers who have no skin in the game, said this is crazy. And we came up with this set of recommendations. And the family, the Skinner family, old mine family up in Seattle, said to me, great idea! Now can you build it? And I said, holy smokes, I'm a consultant. What, do you want me to do something? So for about two years, I was the fee developer and it came out of the ground, it just ... to this day, it gets the highest office rents and rental apartment rents in the northwest of the U.S.. Because of its high density, walkable, urban nature.   Eve: [00:16:57] Wow. And you were hooked, right?   Chris: [00:17:00] Oh, yeah, I saw the power of it. It was just really impressive. And, you know, this is your ultimate doing well while doing good. And you can feel really proud of Carillon Point, which is what it's called ... because it's a long-term keeper. And I asked the family, so, you know, why do you want to do something that's, that's so unconventional from the finance point of view? And they said, well, we've been around Seattle for 100 years. Our family's going to be around for at least another 100 years. We're building with 100 year perspective.   Eve: [00:17:30] Wow. So, then what led you to launch Places Platform?   Chris: [00:17:35] This is kind of a culmination of all the work I've done, going back to age eight. You know, I mentioned earlier, it's the Sim City for real estate and place management and city management. It also could be viewed as the Bloomberg of real estate. Michael Bloomberg, with his original company that made him worth 40, 50 billion dollars, basically created a data set, a database of all the stock and bond markets back in the 70s and 80s, that ... and so on one screen in front of you, or actually two or three screens, you could understand anything about any stock or bond that was being traded on public markets worldwide. And that was a huge step forward. Well, real estate is worth about twice as much as all the publicly traded assets in this country, of all the publicly traded companies. And we are not yet at that point, but we have 100 percent database of all the real estate, we're real close, and that's what Places Platform is creating. Working with Walk Score, working with Co-Star, working with Zillow and Collateral Analytics, and a variety of other databases that are in their silos, we're bringing them all together. And we're looking at it from an economic performance point of view ...  meaning we can do gross regional product, GRP, at the place level, at the city level. At this point, we can't get GRP below the metro level, at least officially, you know, throughout the country. But Places can take it down and tell you what the GRP is of Downtown D.C.. We look at the net fiscal impact, how much does the city net at the place level? How much does Downtown D.C. make for the city of the District of Columbia? The revenues coming in from property taxes and income taxes and sales taxes and all the rest, minus the cost of services, the net fiscal impact. And these walkable urban places almost always make the bulk of the money for a city to pay for public schools, and to pay for welfare and other social benefits. And then, of course, we look at the real estate valuations for all the real estate.   Chris: [00:20:05] We also have three other metrics. One is social equity. What does it mean for somebody who is a low-income household? We also look at it from a public health point of view, and particularly with COVID. And the fourth one that we have not yet developed is, of course, environmental. So, what Places Platform is trying to do is to have a quadruple bottom line. To analyze public policy, infrastructure investment, major real estate development, and understand and quantify what the economic, social equity, public health and environmental, you know, hopefully benefits, are from those investments.   Eve: [00:20:47] Is your hope that this information will propel cities towards the right sort of development?   Chris: [00:20:57] That's it. I've come to realize in my career that there's either a downward spiral for cities or an upward spiral. And the 80s and into the 90s was the downward spiral. No matter what you did, no matter what federal program, whether it be UDAG grants or Model Cities or you name it, redevelopment, there was a downward spiral that no matter what you did, no matter how much money you spent, it would not change the downward spiral. Well, we're now in this upward spiral, with, you know, the market share gains for walkable, urban development is just through the roof, and the price premiums are two, three, four times the price per square foot of drivable suburban places. So, we have this upward spiral. And I have found that the upward spiral, if you have correct public policy, can both give you economic returns and social equity returns and public health returns and environmental returns. And this will be a measurement tool to make sure you are achieving all four of those returns. You do not have to sacrifice social equity for these economic returns.   Eve: [00:22:15] So, then I have to ask the dreaded question, do you think that COVID-19 is more than a blip on that upward spiral?   Chris: [00:22:25] To be flip? It is just a speed  bump, it is just a blip that, you know, a year or two from now we'll look back and just say, that was kind of a weird couple of years. But having said that, I'm not saying that a lot of changes are being sped up. Changes that were in place ...   Eve: [00:22:46] Compressed. Yep. Yep.   Chris: [00:22:48] The head of global research for Cushman and Wakefield asked me a couple of months ago to work with them to help figure out what's the 'future of office' in the U.S.. And so we're in the middle of that work right now, and certainly there's going to be an impact, particularly on the office market. There's going to be, in my mind, it's pretty clear, that there's going to be a repricing, i.e., a reduction in value of offices. It's going to affect different metro areas differently, and we're going to be looking at it, looking at the 30 largest metros to figure out what the impact will be in each of those 30 metros. But, like with every crisis, there's opportunity, and the opportunity, if we see a repricing and a reduction in occupancy in the office space as more people work from home, and, you know, it's not going to be 100 percent work from home. We know that. But it will be more than what we had, which is about 11 percent in 2018, according to the census, worked from home during the most recent week that that survey was conducted. It'll be higher than 11 percent.   Eve: [00:24:07] Yeh, yeh.   Chris: [00:24:07] So, those offices will experience a lot of pain. And the other thing is, that then allows that office space, which is in remarkably great locations, particularly the walkable urban space, to be recycled, probably as residential.   Eve: [00:24:28] Yeah.   Chris: [00:24:28] We are short anywhere from seven to 12 million housing units in this country. That we've not allowed the real estate development community to build. We have mandated that they could not build them. And that has created this horrendous affordable housing and homeless situation. And so a lot of those office spaces, as well as a lot of the hotels, are going to become assets that we can convert into housing in great walkable urban locations.   Eve: [00:25:03] Right, right. Aside from that are there any other current trends in real estate that you believe are most important for the future of cities?   Chris: [00:25:12] Yeah. We collectively in real estate and the built environment, you know, urbanists, in general, we really need to address, forcefully, the need to 'up-zone.' Up-zone land, and in particular, in cores and corridors. The cores are walkable urban places, both in center cities, but in particular the urbanizing suburbs. Probably 50 percent of new walkable urban development will be in urbanizing suburbs. Metro D.C. is leading the way, not just in this country, but worldwide in the urbanization of the suburbs in Arlington and, you know, downtown Bethesda, Silver Spring, Reston Town Center, National Landing, National Harbor. But it's a massive up-zoning battle ...   Eve: [00:26:07] Yeh.   Chris: [00:26:07] ... fought by NIMBYs. NIMBYs are the most pernicious force in urbanism right now, and I am quite ashamed of my generation, I'm a baby-boomer, that are leading the NIMBY charge and it's the most selfish movement ever. And they're basically saying, you can't come here. And if I stop you from coming here, my house is worth more. And it's all in the land. So, we need to flood the market with more up-zoned, walkable urban land. But it's only going to be a small percentage of total metro land. Here in D.C. only two percent of the metro area is walkable urban. That's it. Two percent. And that's where all the action is.   Eve: [00:26:55] You know, you're probably familiar with this, but over the last 10 years or so, I visit Melbourne, Australia regularly, and they up-zoned their key commercial corridors in the way you're describing. And it's been really interesting to watch it. Are you familiar with that?   Chris: [00:27:10] Very much so. I've been to Melbourne quite a bit.   Eve: [00:27:13] Yeh, yeh.   Chris: [00:27:13] You may have run into Mike Day, who's the leading urban planner in Australia, who's based there, and he has an urban planning firm that is the largest in the country. And he and I have been working together, particularly in Melbourne and Sydney. Yeh, they really need to up-zone. I mean, they obviously, you know ...   Eve: [00:27:32] Oh yeh, Melbourne is sprawling badly.   Chris: [00:27:34] Oh, god, it is horrendous. And the same with Sydney. But, you know, their downtowns are among the top five on the planet.   Eve: [00:27:43] Yeah, they're fabulous.   Chris: [00:27:44] When you get out of the downtowns, and it's just suburban hell.   Eve: [00:27:47] Not all of it. Like Melbourne has a really great train network and a wonderful bike network that really connects some of the neighborhoods around downtown, really, pretty well, which is, you know, one good thing.   Chris: [00:28:01] Well, the downtown and the downtown adjacent places are tremendous in Melbourne, as you know better than I, you know, the region of Melbourne is comprised of, like in the U.S., many, many, many jurisdictions. And so the center city is one jurisdiction, downtown and downtown adjacent. So, then all those suburban jurisdictions just don't get it ...   Eve: [00:28:27] Yeh.   Chris: [00:28:27] ...and they are beginning to get it. A lot of efforts going into it. So, I have no doubt that they're moving in the right direction.   Eve: [00:28:35] Well, a city like Melbourne, too, I think it's one of the fastest growing metros ... It's certainly the fastest growing in Australia, and ...   Chris: [00:28:42] And it's such a lovely place. It is just ...   Eve: [00:28:44] It's a lovely place.   Chris: [00:28:45] Charming as can be. Remarkable people.   Eve: [00:28:49] Ok, then, do you think equity crowdfunding can play a role in building communities for everyone? We're talking about social equity and how people can get a stake in their own community.   Chris: [00:29:02] I think it's a critically important trend. And again, it's 'Back to the Future.' This is how we used to build the great real estate. I always used to wonder back in the 80s when I was really trying to noodle through how did the ancients of the late 19th, early 20th century build these buildings that were so well built? They were over-engineered. They were architecturally significant. They were built for the ages as opposed to the junk that we were putting up in the 80s and 90s that were, you know, just slam bang, thank you, ma'am. Throw them up. Assume that in 10, 12 years they're going to become a slum, and you didn't care because you got your money out. And it was because of crowd funding. And it was local folks coming together to build, in particular, you see this with hotels that, every city needed a glamour hotel that would show off the best of that city. And all the business folks would come together and put in money to build this hotel, to demonstrate that this city has come of age. And those hotels are with us today as the grand, marvelous anchors of our downtowns. Every city throughout the country has one. But the same thing applies to much of the commercial real estate, that a lot of small investors came along and dropped in the equivalent of a thousand dollars and they owned a little piece of their community. And that did a lot of things. One is they would economically benefit from the vitality. They would walk past it and they could say to their friends, I own that building. Point of pride. That's the great thing about real estate, is that, you know, unlike software development, which is viper ... just vaporware, you can point to a stick and brick building and say, I own that. Great pride, great emotional return. And it also gives you a reason to care about and patronize your hometown. It's the ultimate doing well while doing good.   Eve: [00:31:10] Yeah, I think you've described exactly why I started a crowdfunding platform. In Pittsburgh, you know, in the neighborhood I lived in for a long time, some of my neighbors would just band together to buy a vacant house to make sure that it wouldn't fall into a slumlord's hands. And, you know, that was exactly in that era. And I was, I was pretty impressed with that. I thought it was pretty fabulous.   Chris: [00:31:36] Yeh, yeh, I've seen that kind of thing happen throughout the country. Chattanooga, again, my favorite small town, has an organization called Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprises that has redeveloped low-income neighborhoods surrounding downtown with zero, zero displacement.   Eve: [00:31:56] Wow.   Chris: [00:31:56] And it's just remarkable. You know, there's so many great examples out there now, over the last 20, 30 years.   Eve: [00:32:04] Well, I've really, really enjoyed talking to you. And I can't wait to see how your new venture evolves. Thank you very much for joining me.   Chris: [00:32:11] It's been very good to catch up with you.   Eve: [00:32:13] Thank you. Bye.   Chris: [00:32:13] Bye. Bye.   Eve: [00:32:26] That was Chris Leinberger. His fascination with cities started at a very early age and evolved into an astounding career working on urban land issues as a strategist, teacher, developer, researcher and author. He built an enormous advisory company and then moved on to focus on development as a co-founder of the Arcadia Land Company, a progressive New Urbanist development company for which he is still a managing partner. I hope you enjoyed listening to this interview as much as I enjoyed recording it. You can find out more about impact real estate investing and access to the show notes for today's episode at my website, EvePicker.com. While you're there, sign up for my newsletter to find out more about how to make money in real estate while building better cities.   Eve: [00:33:20] Thank you so much for spending your time with me today. And thank you, Chris, for sharing your thoughts. We'll talk again soon. But for now, this is Eve Picker signing off to go make some change.

Two of George Bizos’ colleagues pay tribute to the South African human rights lawyer. The high court has forced Cape Town to address apartheid inequality. What are the implications?Hosted by: Musawenkosi CabeGuests: Miriam Wheeldon, Tladi Marumo and Mandisa ShanduProduction: The Good People at Between ProductionsEditor: Charles Leonard

Urban Land vs Rural Land (LA 1322) Transcript: Steven Butala: Steven and Jill here. Jill DeWit: Hey. Steven Butala: Welcome to the land Academy show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack, Butala Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California. Steven Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about urban land versus rural land. Jill DeWit: I know what I like. Steven Butala: I know what I like. Jill DeWit: Oh, I wonder if it's the same. Steven Butala: I bet it is. Jill DeWit: You want to do it? Now or in a minute? Steven Butala: One word answer? Jill DeWit: Uh huh. Steven Butala: Go ahead. Jill DeWit: Okay. I'm going to count down three, two, one, and then we say the word. Okay. Three, two, one. [crosstalk 00:00:31]. What? That wasn't even on here. Steven Butala: I don't care if it's urban or rural, if it's priced good and it's got access, I'm buying it. Jill DeWit: Oh, you tricked me. Steven Butala: Well, it's not a trick and I don't trick you. Jill DeWit: I got to say most, most urban land will have access. Steven Butala: What I've noticed with Land Academy members is they pick one or the other and we don't. We have multiple deals in our database that we're either buying or selling in some process of that. And all of them have two or three of the same characteristics, urban, rural don't care. Grossly under priced is one characteristic, complete and full blown physical and legal access is another criteria and an environment where we know we can sell it fast. Those are the three things. Jill DeWit: Makes sense. Well, I guess we're done with the show. Steven Butala: There's some huge, huge differences between urban and rural land. And that's really what this show is about. Jill DeWit: Right. Steven Butala: It's not about, you just brought it up like, "See, you interpreted this." Which one would you like to buy, urban land versus rural land? Jill DeWit: Yep. Steven Butala: And I saw this as urban lands, very different than rural land and you should buy both. Jill DeWit: Well, I'm on the same page. I'll share that in a moment. After these words from our sponsors. Steven Butala: Who's our sponsors by the way? Jill DeWit: Brought to you by neighbor scoop, get the scoop on your neighbors. It sounds like neighbor scoop could be next door, but it's not. That's not like the next door app. You and our world used neighbor scoop, you're probably not next door. Steven Butala: If I could go back in time, I would've just called this land or diligence. That's what it is. We're going for pre COVID hair salons and stuff. And that's just not who we are. Jill DeWit: That's true. Steven Butala: So I'm not going to change the name again, but that's what it's called. Jill DeWit: I know. That's true. Steven Butala: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill DeWit: Tim wrote, "Hi from Seattle. Wife and I are preparing for our first mailer." Sounds like, my wife and I are preparing for our first child. That's cute. Steven Butala: Mailers, easier. Jill DeWit: True. "We realized there are some States here that are no solicitation, but it doesn't seem that applies to out of state owners. Has anyone had experience with this? If not, I will try to contact an attorney and then post the outcome of the conversation. Thanks in advance." Well, that's pretty cool. Steven Butala: Timmy nailed it. Jill DeWit: Yeah. Steven Butala: What he's talking about is this, there's a handful of States and I'll try to list them here, the ones that I know about anyway, that have rules, they pass laws, just like the phone, you have the federal do not contact. You can put your phone number in and people aren't supposed to, they do anyway, but they're not supposed to contact you with unsolicited stuff. You don't have to do this to not receive texts. It's an eight, but with a bulk mail with mail, send away.

Urban Land vs Rural Land (LA 1322) Transcript: Steven Butala: Steven and Jill here. Jill DeWit: Hey. Steven Butala: Welcome to the land Academy show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack, Butala Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California. Steven Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about urban land versus rural land. Jill DeWit: I know what I like. Steven Butala: I know what I like. Jill DeWit: Oh, I wonder if it's the same. Steven Butala: I bet it is. Jill DeWit: You want to do it? Now or in a minute? Steven Butala: One word answer? Jill DeWit: Uh huh. Steven Butala: Go ahead. Jill DeWit: Okay. I'm going to count down three, two, one, and then we say the word. Okay. Three, two, one. [crosstalk 00:00:31]. What? That wasn't even on here. Steven Butala: I don't care if it's urban or rural, if it's priced good and it's got access, I'm buying it. Jill DeWit: Oh, you tricked me. Steven Butala: Well, it's not a trick and I don't trick you. Jill DeWit: I got to say most, most urban land will have access. Steven Butala: What I've noticed with Land Academy members is they pick one or the other and we don't. We have multiple deals in our database that we're either buying or selling in some process of that. And all of them have two or three of the same characteristics, urban, rural don't care. Grossly under priced is one characteristic, complete and full blown physical and legal access is another criteria and an environment where we know we can sell it fast. Those are the three things. Jill DeWit: Makes sense. Well, I guess we're done with the show. Steven Butala: There's some huge, huge differences between urban and rural land. And that's really what this show is about. Jill DeWit: Right. Steven Butala: It's not about, you just brought it up like, "See, you interpreted this." Which one would you like to buy, urban land versus rural land? Jill DeWit: Yep. Steven Butala: And I saw this as urban lands, very different than rural land and you should buy both. Jill DeWit: Well, I'm on the same page. I'll share that in a moment. After these words from our sponsors. Steven Butala: Who's our sponsors by the way? Jill DeWit: Brought to you by neighbor scoop, get the scoop on your neighbors. It sounds like neighbor scoop could be next door, but it's not. That's not like the next door app. You and our world used neighbor scoop, you're probably not next door. Steven Butala: If I could go back in time, I would've just called this land or diligence. That's what it is. We're going for pre COVID hair salons and stuff. And that's just not who we are. Jill DeWit: That's true. Steven Butala: So I'm not going to change the name again, but that's what it's called. Jill DeWit: I know. That's true. Steven Butala: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill DeWit: Tim wrote, "Hi from Seattle. Wife and I are preparing for our first mailer." Sounds like, my wife and I are preparing for our first child. That's cute. Steven Butala: Mailers, easier. Jill DeWit: True. "We realized there are some States here that are no solicitation, but it doesn't seem that applies to out of state owners. Has anyone had experience with this? If not, I will try to contact an attorney and then post the outcome of the conversation. Thanks in advance." Well, that's pretty cool. Steven Butala: Timmy nailed it. Jill DeWit: Yeah. Steven Butala: What he's talking about is this, there's a handful of States and I'll try to list them here, the ones that I know about anyway, that have rules, they pass laws, just like the phone, you have the federal do not contact. You can put your phone number in and people aren't supposed to, they do anyway, but they're not supposed to contact you with unsolicited stuff. You don't have to do this to not receive texts. It's an eight, but with a bulk mail with mail, send away.

Family renter households are likely to account for a growing share of the overall renter pool as the millennial generation begins to raise families and create homes of their own, says Christopher Ptomey, executive director of the Urban Land institute’s Terwilliger Center for Housing. Families currently account for about a third of the overall renter pool, Ptomey told Nareit’s REIT Report, but that is likely to change. “The millennial generation is reaching a tipping point demographically,” he said. “With the size of the millennial generation, we really expect that family renter cohort being a larger and larger portion of the overall number.”

Established in 2003 with a service area encompassing an entire metropolitan area, the Urban Land Conservancy has become a major player on Denver's real estate scene. An integral part of its success comes from the organization's adoption of key features of the CLT, including permanent ownership of land, long-term ground leasing, and permanent affordability of housing and other buildings located on its land. More than most CLTs in the USA and elsewhere, ULC has taken advantage of the model's versatility to move beyond homeownership –and beyond housing. ULC has supported the development of over 1000 units of multi-family rental housing, while also helping to develop 700,000 square feet of non-residential space for nonprofit partners. It has recently incubated the Elevation CLT, a new organization that (unlike ULC) will focus on the development and stewardship of resale-restricted owner-occupied housing.

One could call it the ‘holy grail’ of today’s highly urbanized world. The way authorities manage it shapes the way we live, including how much public and green space we can benefit from, how we can move around, what types of services we can find around us and most importantly what kind of home we can access. Urban Land is a cornerstone of modern cities and today’s focus point of ‘Making a house a home’. In the third episode of our mini series dedicated to the ‘Housing 2030’ joint international initiative of Housing Europe, UN Habitat and UNECE around housing affordability, we’ll be looking at how one of the world’s major cities, namely Paris is dealing with the question of land and how this in effect influences the provision of social and affordable housing. To do that, we’re privileged to have the view of a true expert. Olivier Richard is Urban planner and Designer at APUR, the Paris Urbanism Agency, a private body that has accompanied public urban policy since 1967. Its mission is to document, analyse and develop forward looking strategies which address the urban and societal evolution of Paris and Greater Paris. Olivier Richard has been involved in the agency’s work for over 20 years and we contacted him to discuss the links between planning and housing, between land and affordability at a time that Paris seems to be undergoing a major transformation. What are the tools that the French capital is deploying to improve the provision of affordable homes? Where have the authorities been successful so far and what are the challenges ahead? And finally, where does housing fit into the much-discussed vision unveiled by Mayor Anne Hidalgo for the so-called ’15-minute city’? Olivier Richard has all the answers. Stay tuned…

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Learn about Urbanization as we know it and what it’s Future!

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Biomimicry is the design systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes. Bill Browning is one of the green building and real estate industry’s foremost thinkers and strategists. His expertise has been sought out by organizations as diverse as Fortune 500 companies, leading universities, non-profit organizations, the U.S. military, and foreign governments. He is a founding partner of Terrapin consulting, whose clients include Cacique Resort in Costa Rica, Starwood’s Element hotel brand, NRDC, PNB Malaysia, New Songdo City in Korea, InterfaceFLOR, Bank of America and the National Geographic Society. In addition to consulting, Bill writes and lectures widely on sustainable design and building practices. He is a co-author of Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate; A Primer on Sustainable Building; Greening the Building and the Bottom Line; and Biophilic Design; The Economics of Biophilia and Midcentury (un)Modern. He has published articles in Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Urban Land, and AIA’s Environmental Resource Guide. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle and Popular Science, among others, and he has been interviewed by NPR, CNN, and PBS. Bill was recently in Rochester to keynote the inaugural Environmental Innovation Awards and lead a symposium on sustainable design. While he was in town, he was kind enough to join us for an interview to talk about green design, biomimicry and creating a more resilient, regenerative economy.

Wanda Lau, LEED AP, is the editor of tech, practice, and products for ARCHITECT and Architectural Lighting. Along with 10 years of experience in the AEC industry, she holds a B.S. in civil engineering from Michigan State University, an S.M. in building technology from MIT, and an M.A. in journalism from Syracuse University's Newhouse School.  Her writing covers a wide range of topics including architecture, technology, business, sustainability, and energy performance, and has appeared in Architect, Architectural Lighting, Eco-Structure, Men’s Health, ASID Icon, University Business, Urban Land, The Syracuse Post-Standard, among others. You can also hear her interviewing leaders in design and technology on Architect's podcast, ArchitectChats. In this episode, we discuss what current AEC technologies she finds most fascinating, how she comes up with her story ideas, what topics she thinks deserve more attention, and her thoughts on covering the architecture profession in the #MeToo era.

After growing up in Garden City, Hannah Ball returned with a new vision for the future. Her company, Urban Land Development is creating of a new commercial corridor along 34th Street.

Topic:The arts and community engagement as highly effective community and economic development strategies Guest & Organization: Juanita Hardy is the Senior Visiting Fellow (SVF) for Creative Placemaking at the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Her work supports the Institute’s http://americas.uli.org/research/centers-initiatives/building-healthy-places-initiative/ (Building Healthy Places Initiative) by deepening and broadening ULI’s focus on creative placemaking through content, the ULI District Council network, and the http://americas.uli.org/research/centers-initiatives/building-healthy-places-initiative/healthy-corridors/ (Healthy Corridors) grant program. Hardy has a passion for making business and cultural connections that foster healthy, thriving, and culturally rich places to work, live, and enjoy. She founded Tiger Management Consulting Group, a global training and business consulting services firm, after retiring from IBM in 2005. Hardy has over 43 years of business experience, including 31 years with IBM, and over 35 years in the arts as a nonprofit leader, trustee, collector, and patron of the arts. For IBM, she led many client transformational leadership initiatives and frequently coached leaders on making change at the individual and organizational level. Her work with Tiger Management included helping clients build successful relationships with businesses in other countries and cultures. As SVF for ULI, Hardy has done extensive research and identified best practices, conducted an assessment on the presence of creative placemaking at ULI, worked with ULI District Councils on programming and capacity building activities, and authored a guide on implementing creative placemaking in real estate development. Hardy is the former Executive Director of http://www.culturaldc.org/ (CulturalDC), a nonprofit committed to making space for artists and art organizations and fostering cultural and economic vibrancy in communities through its creative placemaking services. While at CulturalDC, she worked closely with area developers to integrate arts and culture into development projects across the Washington, D.C., area. She served as an awards program juror for the ULI Washington District Council’s http://washington.uli.org/what-we-do/real-estate-trends-conference/ (Real Estate Trends Conference) for three years, 2015-2017. Since 2006, Hardy has served as an executive coach with http://www.right.com/wps/wcm/connect/right-us-en/home/ (Right Management), a global human capital development firm, and has served on many nonprofit art boards dating to the 1980s. She co-founded http://www.millenniumartssalon.org/ (Millennium Arts Salon), an art education initiative, in 2000. Hardy is an accomplished writer and public speaker. Her recent writing includes a trilogy of http://www.millenniumartssalon.org/ (creative placemaking articles in Urban Land magazine). Resources: https://americas.uli.org/research/centers-initiatives/building-healthy-places-initiative/ (Urban Land Institute’s Building Healthy Places Initiative) https://americas.uli.org/research/centers-initiatives/building-healthy-places-initiative/creative-placemaking/ (Urban Land Institute’s Creative Placemaking) https://www.arts.gov/ (National Endowment for the Arts) https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/CreativePlacemaking-Paper.pdf (National Endowment for the Arts’ Creative Placemaking Paper) by Ann Markusen, Markusen Economic Research Services and Anne Gadwa, Metris Arts Consulting https://www.lgc.org/ (Local Government Commission )

In this episode we discuss how settler colonialism plays out through neoliberal development projects and gentrification in Winnipeg in a conversation with geographer Owen Toews. Toews holds a Ph.D in Human Geography from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. In 2015 he published his dissertation "Resettling the City? Settler Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Land in Winnipeg, Canada."  

  TOPICHistory of an Unlevel Playing Field IN THIS EPISODE[01:41] Introduction of Morgan Grove. [02:05] Morgan explains what the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) is. [03:13] Who is participating in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study? [04:07] Morgan shares what his role is on the BES team. [05:06] Morgan describes some of the sub-projects he’s working on. [07:40] Morgan shares the connections between economic and social inequality and diminished access to nature. [15:20] Morgan talks about health disparities and other quality-of-life indicators. [17:42] What have been the most unexpected findings from the BES so far? [19:36] Morgan explains how we can overcome the misunderstanding of white people to the persistence of the disempowerment of African Americans throughout history. [23:35] Morgan shares where to learn more about the BES. [24:27] Morgan shares where to find his book, “The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology.” [24:58] Morgan shares one change that would lead to smarter, more sustainable, and more equitable communities. [25:12] Morgan describes the action listeners can take to help build a more equitable and sustainable future. [25:49] Morgan explains what Baltimore city and the Chesapeake Bay looks like 30 years from now. GUESTMorgan Grove is a social scientist and Team Leader for the USDA Forest Service’s Baltimore Urban Field Station. Morgan has worked in Baltimore since 1989, with the Forest Service since 1996, and has been a Co-Principal Investigator in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) since its beginning in 1997. Learn More about Morgan http://www.fs.fed.us/blogs/meet-morgan-grove (Here) ORGANIZATIONThe Baltimore Ecosystem Study is a long-term ecological research project. It is funded by the National Science Foundation to learn how an urban area works as an ecological system. We want to know the ecological interactions in the whole range of habitats — from the center city of Baltimore, out into the surrounding rural areas. We are conducting research on the soil, the plants and animals on land and in the streams, the water quality, and condition of the air in and around Baltimore. For that information to make sense, we are also studying how families, associations, organizations and political bodies make decisions that affect ecological processes. In other words, we are treating the whole collection of urban, suburban and rural areas as an ecological system that includes people and their activities. This is a really unusual approach to ecology because it combines with social sciences, physical sciences, and education to understand a big metropolitan area as an ecological system. Saying that an urban area is a system just means that we are concerned with the interactions between wild and domestic organisms, people and their organizations, and the natural and built environment all affect one another. It is these relationships that determine the quality of the environment we experience in the places where we live, work and relax. The research project is long-term, because conditions in the past affect the urban environment we experience now, and we also need to be able to say what environmental effects the things we are doing now in and around our cities will affect the environment in the future. This information can help people, including individuals, families, organizations and government agencies, to make decisions that have the environmental effects that they want. The Baltimore Ecosystem Study (http://beslter.org/ (BES)) seeks to • Pursue excellence in social-ecological research in an urban system; • Maintain positive engagement with communities, environmental institutions, and government agencies; • Educate and inform the public, students, and organizations that have need of scientific knowledge; and • Assemble and nurture a diverse and inclusive community of researchers, educators, and participants. TAKEAWAY QUOTES“Because [the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is] an urban site, we’re...

In an interview with Alan Jones broadcast on 2GB on 12 December 2012 the NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell, the Premier said he was bound by coal seam gas (CSG) licences and exploration rights on prime agricultural and urban land and even near major dam catchment areas granted by the previous Labor government. If he did, he says, the government would be liable to pay massive compensation. Now in this interview broadcast on 14 December 2012 Alan Jones speaks to CANdo’s Professor David Flint. Flint argues that there is no constitutional or legal barrier to stop the Premier from acting in the way the voters at the last election expected. Parliament, he says, could stop these activities. Indeed he wonders why Parliament did not enact immediately after the last election a Protection of Prime Agricultural and Urban Land (including Water Catchments) Act, 2011 It will be said that if such a law empowered the government to act acts, investors would lose confidence. Some CSG miners who are lusting after prime agricultural land and urban land will. But this is only because the land is close to infrastructure. Infrastructure funded by the taxpayers. Do we really need them? The country is sitting on a sea of CSG – so why don’t they leave prime agricultural land to future generations? Governments –especially in NSW and Queensland – will be more and more on the nose if they don’t do what they were elected for. More evidence – if there need be – for the people to be empowered with the tools of direct democracy.

Sam Foster, CCIM - Executive Vice President, Jones Lang LaSalle-Los Angeles The NAR Commercial Intelligence Briefing Podcast continues with a conversation with Sam Foster, CCIM, executive vice president of Jones Lang LaSalle-Los Angeles. Sam is one of  NAR Commercial's Signature Series speakers for 2012. He offers two seminars in the Signature Series, one called "View from the Edge" in which he and several colleagues discuss emerging trends in how commercial real estate is reused and reimagined based on changing market demographics; and a second session on how to set up an effective tenant representation practice. Biography Sam Foster, CCIM, is an Executive Vice President with Jones Lang LaSalle-Los Angeles. As Executive Vice President of Tenant Representation Group, Sam's responsibilities include the representation of Mattel, Whirlpool, Xerox and other corporate real estate clients. Prior to joining Jones Lang LaSalle, Sam was Director of CB Richard Ellis' Madison Advisory Group. During the course of his career, he has effected or supervised transactions valued at over $2.7 billion. Sam has a Bachelor of the Arts degree from the University of Southern California where he has also served as a guest lecturer. He is a faculty member with the CCIM Institute and served as a Past President for the Los Angeles chapter. In addition to these accomplishments, his writings have been featured in Urban Land, Professional Report, Commercial Investment Real Estate Journal and Real Estate – Southern California. Additionally, Sam has authored one novel , “Alpha Male,” published in 2002 by Daniel & Daniel. Subscribe to the RSS feed for these podcasts. Subscribe to the NAR Commercial Intelligence Briefing Podcasts in iTunes.