The Columbia Association (CA) and The Howard Hughes Corporation partnered to present "21st Century Development Trends -- How Will Columbia Measure Up?", a presentation by noted metropolitan land strategist and author Chris Leinberger, on Wednesday, June 1 at 7 p.m. in the Spear Center. Leinberger spoke about the demand for communities that embody "walkable urbanism" and he shared how this and other real estate trends will impact downtown revitalization and other development patterns. Leinberger is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC; a professor and founding director of the Graduate Real Estate Development Program at the University of Michigan; founding partner of Arcadia Land Company, a new urbanism/transit-oriented development and consulting firm; and president of Locus: Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors, a political advocacy organization. He is also a noted author and researcher who has published two books, The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream and Strategic Planning for Real Estate Companies, as well as contributed to numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and Urban Land magazine. He was voted one of the "Top 100 Urban Thinkers" in 2009 in a poll conducted by Planetizen, an international urban planning and architecture web site, and in 2010 he was awarded the William H. Whyte Award by Partners for Livable Communities. For more information, please visit cleinberger.com. This event is part of CA's ongoing Community Building Speakers Series.

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