How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community

Cities are always changing: streets, infrastructure, public spaces, and buildings are constantly being built, improved, demolished, and...
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Author: Peter Hendee Brown
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How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community by Brown, Peter Hendee

How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community

$244.37

How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community

$244.37
Author: Peter Hendee Brown
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.

Author: Peter Hendee Brown
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 05/05/2015
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780812247053


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2015

About the Author
Peter Hendee Brown is an architect, planner, and development consultant based in Minneapolis, where he also teaches at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is author of America's Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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