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NYU-Deutches Haus
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Baruch College
New York Law School
SUNY at Buffalo
University of Minnesota at Duluth
Spring Valley Holocaust Museum
Museum of Jewish Heritage
NYC Public Libraries
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (NYC)
Congregation Beth Shalom (Munich)
BIO OF SPEAKER
Rick Landman

Richard Landman is an Attorney Emeritus, AICP Planner, and Professor. He has 3 Masters Degrees and a J.D. and over 30 years of experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

He was the Executive Director of Real Estate Development for the City of New York and at NYU for almost 20 years. He has also taught Land-Use Law at NYU or New York Law School for over a decade.

On a personal basis, he is a Native New Yorker, born to two German Holocaust Survivors. He also started the Gay Liberation Front at SUNY Buffalo in 1970 and has been active in LGBT political advances ever since. Finally, in 2005 he returned a Torah scroll to his grandfather's hometown and became a dual American/German citizen in 2007.


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TARGET AUDIENCES:

Holocaust Museums & Study Centers
Synagogues & Other Religious Groups
Yom HaShoah & Kristallnacht programs
German-American Groups
College Offices of LGBT Student Affairs
LGBT Community Centers
TARGET AUDIENCES:

Colleges & Universities
Law Schools
Urban Planning Groups
Civic Groups
Real Estate Associations

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You can now hear from a Native New Yorker, gay son of two Jewish Holocaust Survivors, who started his college's Gay & Lesbian Student Organization in 1970 and became a dual American/German citizen in 2007 after returning a Torah to Germany in 2005; explain LGBT and German/Jewish/Holocaust history from a unique perspective.

THE FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF TOPICS THAT ARE CLUSTERED INTO MAJOR SUBJECT AREAS DEALING WITH JEWISH, HOLOCAUST, GERMAN, OR LGBT ISSUES. A TALK CAN BE CREATED JUST FOR YOUR GROUP.


You can now hear from the former Executive Director of Reak Estate Development for the City of New York, and Director of Real Estate Development for NYU, and AICP Land-Use Law Professor at both NYU and New York Law School, and an Attorney Emeritus with the LGBT LeGaL Walk-In Clinic; give various talks.


THE FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF TOPICS THAT ARE CLUSTERED INTO MAJOR SUBJECT AREAS DEALING WITH REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, LAND USE LAW, URBAN PLANNING. A TALK CAN BE CREATED JUST FOR YOUR GROUP.
HOLOCAUST
REAL ESTATE
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Reconciliation:
Lessons Learned from the Holocaust

  • Why an American son of Holocaust Survivors became a German citizen?
  • The History of Jews in Germany before and after the Nazi era
  • German influence on American Jewish Movements
  • Returning a Holocaust Torah to Germany
  • How my family survived the Holocaust
  • First Hand story about Kristallnacht
  • History of Real Estate Cycles
  • Abusing the Poor to create wealth
  • In-Rem Auctions of NYC
  • History of various major Real Estate Projects
  • Brokers and Salesperson Class Lectures
  • Continuing Education Classes
  • GERMAN HISTORY
    LAW & URBAN PLANNING
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    Reconciliation:
    Lessons Learned from the Holocaust

  • Why an American son of Holocaust Survivors became a German citizen?
  • The History of Jewish (and Homosexual)Movements in Germany,
    before and after the Nazi era
  • How my family survived the Holocaust?
  • The first American Soldier to enter Augsburg/Munich was also an inmate in Dachau seven years earlier
  • Returning a Holocaust Torah to Germany
  • Eminent Domain
  • Urban Renewal
  • History of Zoning
  • Basics of NYC Zoning
  • Landmarks
  • NYC'S ULURP PROCESS (Land-use procedure)
  • NYC'S CEQR Environmental Procedures
  • Community Benefit Agreements
  • Community Boards
  • Sustainability
  • Landlord-Tenant Law
  • LGBT Law
  • GAY-LGBT HISTORY
    Many lectures can also be converted in a "Walking Tour".
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    LGBT AMERICAN HISTORY

  • A first hand accounting of the early LGBT Rights Movement in America
  • Starting one of the first LGBT Student Associations in America
  • Coming out as a gay son Holocaust Survivors
  • The history of the world's largest LGBT Synagogue

    LGBT GERMAN HISTORY

  • The Rise and Fall of the LGBT Rights Movement in Germany 1897-1945

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  • chinese apa delegation

    This group was a Chinese delegation hosted by the American Planning Association (APA) who wanted a tour and lecture on Sustainability and the history of Land Use in New York City. (October 2010)


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