Richard Peiser

Oct 29, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Ron Nyren |Richard Peiser |Holly Dutton |Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme

Covid-19 may have caused a precipitous decline in convention crowds in 2020, but it did not halt long-range plans to overhaul and expand convention centers in a number of key U.S. cities. Today that foresight is bearing fruit with grand new facilities able to host larger industry and trade gatherings than ever before.

Mar 26, 2024 | mdpi.com | Emmanuel Kofi Gavu |Richard Peiser |Emmanuel Kofi

1. IntroductionReducing carbon emissions associated with buildings is a top priority for mitigating the human impacts on climate change. Reducing carbon emissions resulting from the manufacturing, designing, constructing, investing, owning, operating, occupying, renovating, and demolishing of buildings is essential to safeguard the environment from negative consequences. The buildings and infrastructure that define our cities contribute approximately 38 percent of greenhouse emissions [,].

Oct 13, 2023 | urbanland.uli.org | Richard Peiser

New towns and master-planned communities played a major role in the growth of the Los Angeles metropolitan area throughout the 20th century. With the invention of mass-produced housing in the 1940s—a factory in the field, as exemplified by Levittown in New York—Los Angeles developed rapidly after large ranches such as Palos Verdes and Bixby Ranch were master-planned for housing and neighborhood amenities.

Oct 13, 2023 | urbanland.uli.org | Richard Peiser

New towns and master-planned communities played a major role in the growth of the Los Angeles metropolitan area throughout the 20th century. With the invention of mass-produced housing in the 1940s—a factory in the field, as exemplified by Levittown in New York—Los Angeles developed rapidly after large ranches such as Palos Verdes and Bixby Ranch were master-planned for housing and neighborhood amenities.