Agora Partners leads, curates and participates in published discourse about urban planning and development:
(all link to pdf documents)
Redevelopment
Kansas City Uses Culture to Transform Its Downtown, Museums, Libraries and Urban Vitality: A Handbook, Roger L. Kemp and Marcia Trotta (editors), 2008
Transforming Shorelines, Urban Land, October 2008
Game On, Game Off, Urban Land, September 2007
1100 Wilshire: The View Never Sleeps, Los Angeles Downtown News, February 26, 2007
High-Rise Living Above LA, Los Angeles Business Journal, August 21, 2006
From Mall to Mixed-Use Haven, Urban Land, September 2005
Stafford's Standout, Urban Land, April 2005
Three Rivers Rising, Urban Land, July 2002
Going SoLo, Urban Land, April 2002
Times Square's Time, Urban Land, February 2002
Open Space
Public Open Space: Public and Private Benefit, Real Estate Review, Summer 2013
The Payoff from Parks, Urban Land, July/August 2012
California Wastes Its Public Space, New Geography, August 14, 2009
Bryant Brilliance, Local Government News (UK), January 2004
Clean Slate, Urban Land, May 2001
Urban Policy
BRT is ERP (or, Bus Rapid Transit is Enlightened Responsible Planning), New Geography, July 23,2010
Developing for Good, The San Diego Union-Tribune, February 27, 2010
A BIDs Primer, The Next American City, Issue Eleven/2006
Young pros use learning process to serve public, Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2006
Urban Finance
Modifying Loans and the Decision-Makers, New Geography, October 11, 2010
Financing Mixed Use, Multifamily Trends, Fall 2003
Trends
Ready About, Urban Land, January/February 2012
Happier Hotels Ahead, Urban Land, July/August 2010
Retreat, Retrench, or Rebound, Urban Land, February 2009
Defying the Odds, California Builder, March/April 2008
Refining Mixed Use, Urban Land, February 2005
Spotlight On: Resort Development
Resort Towns Becoming Neo-Company Towns, New Geography, August 1, 2010
Resort Development, Wharton Real Estate Review, Fall 2009
Ten Trends Affecting Mountain Resorts, Urban Land, April 2006
New from the Montana Slopes..., Urban Land, August 2003
Controlling Growth, Urban Land, August 2000
Spotlight On: The Olympics
The Windy City Reaches for Its Rings, Urban Land, March 2007
L.A. Goes for the Gold, Urban Land, March 2007
Slaying the Olympic Elephants, Urban Land, February 2007
Sydney's Darling, Urban Land, November/December 2001
Sydney 2000 and Beyond, Urban Land, February 2001
Book Reviews
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Healthier, and Happier
Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities
Retail Rescue: Visions + Strategies for Repositioning Distressed Retail Properties
Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed
reWealth!: Stake Your Claim in the $2 Trillion Development Trend That's Renewing the World
Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis in America
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability
The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream
Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change
Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long-Term Performance
Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World
A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder
Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style: A Life in Architecture
Architecture of the Absurd: How “Genius” Disfigured a Practical Art
The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream
Jigsaw Cities: Big Places, Small Spaces
From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City
Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America
The (Un)common Place: Art, Public Space, and Urban Aesthetics in Europe
Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment
Desert America: Territory of Paradox
The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War
Building Barcelona: A Second Renaixença
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities
The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making
Victor Gruen: From Urban Shop to New City
Architourism: Authentic, Escapist, Exotic, Spectacular
The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster
The Restoration Economy: The Greatest New Growth Frontier
Waterfronts in Post-Industrial Cities
Global Networks, Linked Cities
Preserving the World’s Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis
Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century
American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
The City Builders: Property Development in New York and London, 1980-2000