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Topics: Urban Planning, Land-Use Law, Real Estate Topics: Being Jewish, Gay, German, and a son of Holocaust Survivors

DOES YOUR COLLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL OR CIVIC ASSOCIATION NEED AN URBAN PLANNING PROFESSOR/PLANNER/ATTORNEY AS A SPEAKER?

Finally, a Land-Use Law/Real Estate/Planning Professor who makes "Housecalls"...
Many of these Lectures are also "Walking Tours".
The curriculum is suited to your group's age. (From High School to Post Graduate.)
LIST OF SAMPLE TOPICS FOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

TOPICS: URBAN PLANNING - ZONING - URBAN RENEWAL - LANDMARKS OR 9/11 WTC EXPERIENCE


Urban Renewal LAND USE LAW-
Topics include:
  • urban renewal
  • eminent domain
  • landmarking
  • growth management
  • exclusionary and inclusionary zoning
  • Community Benefit Agreements
  • Environmental Impact Statements
  • Adult Use Zoning
    FOR EXAMPLE:LECTURE - TRUMP CONDO HOTEL PROJECT - How is it legal?

    • Equitable ZONING STARTS IN LOWER MANHATTAN-
    Topics include:
  • The history of how and why Zoning was created in America (Use and Bulk)
  • The need for set-backs and sky exposures planes
  • Transfer of Development Rights (Air Rights)
  • Zoning Bonuses such as for Open Space Plazas, or Subway connections, etc.
  • Floor Area Ratios (FAR)
  • ULURP or due process for land use projects
  • Real Estate Development cycles and in-rem process of tax foreclosures
  • Grandfathered non-conforming uses and non-complying bulks

    • Minuet NEW AMSTERDAM TO NEW YORK CITY TO NEW ORANGE TO NEW YORK CITY-
    Along with a walking tour, the topic of religious freedom and taxation and other Dutch impacts on American life and the City's physical form. Also a discussion of whether there really was a contract of sale to purchase Manhattan Island for 60 guilders? What was life like for homosexuals and Native Americans and Africans during this period? This lecture is based on the book by Russell Shorto and supplemented by other sources.

    wtc LIVING 1,000 FEET FROM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER-
    The talk concerns living in Lower Manhattan before, during and after 9/11; from being displaced and coping with the tragedy of our times.

    I give a minute by minute account of what it was like from waking up to a beautiful sunny day to going to sleep on the floor of one's office. Then having to cope with the realities of having your neighborhood devastated and working your way back to a cleaned up home.

    ABOUT THE SPEAKER


  • Earned 3 Masters Degrees (Master of City and Regional Planning - M.C.R.P. and M.S. in Civil (Socio) Engineering and Ed.M. in Curriculum Planning) and a J.D. (cum laude); specialized in real estate and urban planning for decades. He is an AICP certified planner for over 30 years and a member of the New York Bar for over 20 years.

  • Executive Director of Real Estate Development for the City of New York in 1979-1983; Vice President of a Brazilian Construction Co. from 1983-1985; and the Director of Real Estate Development for New York University from 1989-2006.

  • Adjunct Professor for the core required graduate Land Use Law class at NYU's Wagner School for their urban planning students since 2003.

  • Long term member of Community Board #1 Manhattan, and was the first chair of the Planning & Community Infrastructure Committee, the first chair of the Landmarks Committee when Tribeca was designated, and was a chair of the Tribeca Committee.



     APPEARANCE FEES
    Appearance fees vary depending on the engagement. Travel and boarding expenses are extra and handled on an individual basis. Each talk is approximately one hour long, including questions and answers. Cash, Travelers Checks or NYS checks are acceptable forms of payment.

    RESERVATIONS
    To make a reservation, please click on the email icon below and list the following in your email. Make sure you have a written confirmation from me before considering the event confirmed:
    A SAMPLE OF SOME PAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:


    Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    Topic: HOW DID DONALD TRUMP BUILD A 42-45 STORY CONDO-HOTEL IN SOHO?
    New York Law School
    Center for Real Estate Studies
    Masters Class
    12:50 pm to 1:50 pm
    Room C200 at New York Law School on Worth Street, NYC.
    Click Here to see the Outline for this Lecture

    Wednesday, September 26, 2008
    Topic: REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT IN TRIBECA- GENTRIFICATION OR DESTRUCTION?
    New York Law School
    Center for Real Estate Studies
    Masters Class
    12:50 pm to 1:50 pm
    Room B100 at New York Law School on Worth Street, NYC.
    Rick Landman, will discuss the history of Tribeca's development over the past 30 years, balancing the desires of the long term occupants (illegal tenants or "pioneers"), developers and new residents. The discussion will include the zoning implications of the Special TMU District and Landmarking, the New York Law School deed restriction, community board proposals and real estate cycles.

    Rick Landman, Esq. AICP, was the Executive Director of Real Estate Development for the City under Mayor Koch and was the Director of Real Estate Development for NYU for almost 20 years. He is a long term member of Community Board #1 having served as chair of the Landmarks Committee, Tribeca Committee and 197-a Planning Committee. He is also an adjunct professor of NYU's Wagner Schools required Land Use Law class for their graduate planning students.

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