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How Real Estate Developers Think
Design, Profits, and Community
Hardcover | 7 April 2015
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Cities are always changing: streets, infrastructure, public spaces, and buildings are constantly being built, improved, demolished, and replaced. But even when a new project is designed to improve a community, neighborhood residents often find themselves at odds with the real estate developer who proposes it. Savvy developers are willing to work with residents to allay their concerns and gain public support, but at the same time, a real estate development is a business venture financed by private investors who take significant risks. In How Real Estate Developers Think, Peter Hendee Brown explains the interests, motives, and actions of real estate developers, using case studies to show how the basic principles of development remain the same everywhere even as practices vary based on climate, local culture, and geography. An understanding of what developers do and why they do it will help community members, elected officials, and others participate more productively in the development process in their own communities.
Based on interviews with over a hundred people involved in the real estate development business in Chicago, Miami, Portland (Oregon), and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, How Real Estate Developers Think considers developers from three different perspectives. Brown profiles the careers of individual developers to illustrate the character of the entrepreneur, considers the roles played by innovation, design, marketing, and sales in the production of real estate, and examines the risks and rewards that motivate developers as people. Ultimately, How Real Estate Developers Think portrays developers as creative visionaries who are able to imagine future possibilities for our cities and communities and shows that understanding them will lead to better outcomes for neighbors, communities, and cities.
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"Peeking into the minds of real estate developers turns out to be riveting. Peter Hendee Brown has managed to open up the life of risk, reward and values in the paradoxical world of development. From understanding how well intentioned community guidelines for development often backfire, to learning more about how real estate deals work and how design relates (or doesn't) to the market, to seeing case studies of how real estate development is ultimately an expression of values, this book is a must read for anyone in the development, design or planning world, or anyone who lives in a city or community where planning and development happen-basically anyone who is interested in knowing more about how our cities and communities are shaped." * Mary Margaret Jones, FASLA, FAAR; President and Senior Principal, Hargreaves Associates Landscape Architecture *
"Brown makes the great point that less conflict and more cooperation should lead to far better buildings and cities that are better places to live and work." * Lee Schafer, Minneapolis Star Tribune *
"Focusing on imaginative and experienced development professionals working in complex urban settings, Brown usefully problematizes the monolithic idea of the 'greedy developer.' By helping readers to see how these more sophisticated developers think, this engagingly written book can do much to help move real-world situations from hostile standoffs to informed conversations." * Ann Forsyth, Harvard Graduate School of Design *
ISBN: 9780812247053
ISBN-10: 0812247051
Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century
Published: 7th April 2015
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.24
Weight (kg): 0.68
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