January Lecture: Christopher Leinberger, Reimagining Cities

Christopher Leinberger, Reimagining Cities
January 21
10:30-11:30 AM
Online via Zoom

Christopher Leinberger is co-founding partner and managing director of Places Platform, a proptech start-up developing a big data analytical platform of 100% of US real estate; and founding partner of Arcadia Land Company, a New Urbanism/transit-oriented development firm dedicated to land stewardship and walkable communities, focused on the Philadelphia area.

Leinberger established the real estate and urban analysis research programs at George Washington University School of Business and is now an Emeritus Professor. He received the 2020 Land Economics Society Distinguished Educator Award. He also established the graduate real estate program at the University of Michigan.

For 21 years, he was Managing Director and co-owner of RCLCo (formerly Robert Charles Lesser Co.), the largest independent real estate advisory firm in the country. He was also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Leinberger was named one of the Top 100 Urbanists of all time by Planetizen urban planning website. The author of two books and a contributor to 16 others, he has written for The Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, American Conservative, Nation, and Washington Monthly.

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