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U of M team one of "Final Four" in ULI/Hines Competition

A University of Michigan team is one of “Final Four” in the Urban Land Institute/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, the most prestigious graduate real estate and design competition in the country.

Team members include (from left to right):
Sarfaraz Momin (M.U.D.)
Mike Johnson (M.U.D)
Deirdre Groves (M.U.P. and Real Estate Certificate), student team leader
Danielle Bober (M.U.P. and Real Estate Certificate)
Michael Tchang (M.B.A.)

Kit McCullough, Lecturer at TCAUP, was the faculty advisor for the team. The ULI/Hines Competition is a part of the course, UP 564, the Integrated Real Estate Seminar, the capstone class of the Graduate Real Estate Certificate. The course is taught by Chris Leinberger, Professor and Director of the Graduate Real Estate Program.

There were 96 teams in the competition from schools such as UC Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, among others. The urban design competition focused on The Cedars section of Dallas, immediately adjacent to downtown. The final four teams will have an opportunity to revise their initial design concepts following a site visit and will make a personal presentation in Dallas in early April, when the winner will be announced. Go Blue!
For more information see: http://udcompetition.uli.org/

2/27/2008 Permanent link to this post.

Two Authors from U-M make the Top 10 Best Planning Books for 2008

Option of Urbanism by C. Leinberger and Sustainable Urbanism by D. Farr

Chris Leinberger's Option of Urbanism and Sustainable Urbanism by Douglas Farr, B.S.'80 were selected by Planetizen for its seventh annual list of the ten best books in the planning field.
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2/12/2008 Permanent link to this post.