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Ron Nyren

San Francisco

Contributor at Urban Land Magazine

Debut novel THE BOOK OF LOST LIGHT, @BlackLawrence. Finalist, 2020 Langum Prize. Contributor, @UrbanLandInst. Instructor, @StanfordCSP. He/they.

Articles

  • 1 week ago | urbanland.uli.org | Ben Johnson |Beth Mattson-Teig |Ron Nyren

    Husband and wife architectural team Hans and Torrey Butzer were living in Berlin, Germany, in late 1996 when a contest in Progressive Architecture magazine caught their attention. The competition called for designing a memorial to the victims of the tragic bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.

  • 2 weeks ago | urbanland.uli.org | Ron Nyren

    When Denver’s Stapleton International Airport closed in the mid-1990s, community leaders saw a chance to create a new, 4,700-acre (1,900 ha) community just six miles east of downtown. The project’s original developer, Forest City Stapleton (sold to Brookfield Properties in 2018), kicked off an urban transformation that is now nearing completion 25 years later.

  • 1 month ago | urbanland.uli.org | Ella Fertitta |Ron Nyren

    Drawing by C. William Brubaker, AIA. The Perkins and Will Partnership, for Schools for America, the American Association of School Administrators, publishers. July-August 1967: Thurston H. Ross delivered a speech on high-rise schools, the abandonment of the front and back yard concept for suburban homes, and a return to the town meeting type of government in the future.

  • 1 month ago | urbanland.uli.org | Ron Nyren |Beth Mattson-Teig

    Most decarbonization efforts across the real estate industry have been centered on operational carbon—understandably so, given that 28 percent of global emissions come from building use. Private and public investment has been focused on energy efficiency measures, on-site renewables and “greening” of the energy grids. Although there is still a way to go, the sector’s approach to tracking and reducing operational carbon is fairly well-established.

  • 1 month ago | urbanland.uli.org | Peter B. Madrid |Ron Nyren |Beth Mattson-Teig |Michele Lerner

    A common thread weaving through the business of arts and culture, the reimagining of master-planned communities, cutting-edge data centers, advanced lab spaces, and the new breed of elite hotels is clear: a commitment to sustainability, innovation, and economic vitality and impact. These dynamic topics were front and center at the 20th Annual Trends Day, where industry leaders gathered to discuss the present and look to Arizona’s future.

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