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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 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 pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Peter Hendee (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: a brick wall in Evanston
  • Developer as visionary
  • Deal makers
  • The real estate development process
  • Developers and their architects
  • Good design
  • Selling real estate
  • Market cycles, leverage, and timing
  • Profits, values, and a sense of purpose
  • The creation of place and culture
  • Developers and the community.