Mr. Chakrabarti said the firm is determined to shake things up in the world of architecture, development and planning. “Most master planning, you use pretty pastel drawings that rarely have anything to do with what gets built,” he said. “Planning has been static, it hasn’t been performative. Most of these plans, they get implemented over 20 or 30 years. Think of how much a city and the world changes in that span of time.” — New York Observer
The former city planner, developer and current chair of Columbia's real estate development program, the Center for Urban Real Estate, joins the hotshot New York firm.
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this should be interesting...
I watched a lecture of his at the GSD (on youtube) that was really interesting, talking alot about how we need to densify. Which I mainly agree with completely. Did you happen to see it or have you seen him speak before? Didn't know much about him beforehand except that he was at Columbia..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX2zng2aMc0&feature=share
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