Todd Clarke @ August 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A good friend, developer, proffesor and author friend of mine, Chris Lienberger, wrote a fabulous book titled “Option of Urbanism” a couple of years ago. One of the items I was stunned to learn is that GM designed and presented their vision of a future metropolis - centered around cars.
Some sixty years [...]
Todd Clarke @ January 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Thanks to Anil Krishnamurthy for sending me my holiday read - Le Deal by J. Byrne Murphy.
Le Deal covers a well known American Developer who decided to expand into the European retail market. Le Deal gives great insight into the differences between development in Europe and America, and provides a handful of good laughs [...]
admin @ December 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy by Andro Linklater
This book has turned out to be one of my favorite real estate reads. Although many of America’s founding fathers were surveyors (George Washington and Thomas Jefferson included) this book extends its reach much further [...]