9780812247053-0812247051-How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community (The City in the Twenty-First Century)

How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community (The City in the Twenty-First Century)

ISBN-13: 9780812247053
ISBN-10: 0812247051
Author: Peter Hendee Brown
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover 336 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780812247053
ISBN-10: 0812247051
Author: Peter Hendee Brown
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover 336 pages

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How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community (The City in the Twenty-First Century) (ISBN-13: 9780812247053 and ISBN-10: 0812247051), written by authors Peter Hendee Brown, was published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2015. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Urban & Land Use Planning (Architecture, Environmental Economics, Economics, Investments, Real Estate, Natural Resources, Nature & Ecology, Urban, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community (The City in the Twenty-First Century) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Urban & Land Use Planning books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.96.

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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.

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