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#8 - Coby Lefkowitz, Backyard: Creating Beautiful Places as a Developer, Achieving Better Urbanism in the United States
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Coby Lefkowitz is an urbanist, developer and writer living in New York City. He was a real estate analyst, but left his company to co-found Backyard, a real estate startup. He studied urban and environmental planning at the University of Virginia and writes for the Metropolis column for Medium.
In this episode we have a great talk on the differences between the European and American urban planning context, Coby talks about what challenges developers face to achieve something more than spreadsheet architecture, the challenge of parking requirements, combatting sprawl and much more. Don't be surprised to see a follow up episode sometime in the future!
Find Coby on Medium: https://cobylefko.medium.com/
Follow Coby on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cobylefko
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Manage episode 352812995 series 3438453
Coby Lefkowitz is an urbanist, developer and writer living in New York City. He was a real estate analyst, but left his company to co-found Backyard, a real estate startup. He studied urban and environmental planning at the University of Virginia and writes for the Metropolis column for Medium.
In this episode we have a great talk on the differences between the European and American urban planning context, Coby talks about what challenges developers face to achieve something more than spreadsheet architecture, the challenge of parking requirements, combatting sprawl and much more. Don't be surprised to see a follow up episode sometime in the future!
Find Coby on Medium: https://cobylefko.medium.com/
Follow Coby on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cobylefko
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For more information on The Aesthetic City,
find our website on https://theaestheticcity.com/
Love what we do? Become a patron! With your help we can grow this platform even further, make more content and hopefully achieve real, lasting impact for more beautiful cities worldwide.
Visit our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/the_aesthetic_city?fan_landing=true
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_Aesthetic_City
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