Katie Swenson is a Senior Principal at MASS Design. She joined Mass in 2020 after having worked for many years on affordable housing with Enterprise Community Partners on issues of design and sustainability. Her role at MASS, which has built a reputation as a design practice that embraces issues of economic and social equity, is to help them to define MASS version 2.0. … [Read more...] about Home.
1,000 urban entrepreneurs.
Lyneir Richardson is a man with a mission. His goal is to help 1,000 urban entrepreneurs grow their businesses, through a nine-month program run by the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED) at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ. The program, where diversity abounds, has enrolled about 400 entrepreneurs so far. As executive director of CUEED, … [Read more...] about 1,000 urban entrepreneurs.
Advancing financial inclusion. With Fintech.
Melissa Koide has described herself as a “policy entrepreneur,” and she is the founder of a relatively new research organization called FinRegLab (2018), an independent non-profit working rigorously to test the technological tools used by the world of financial services. Most specifically, they have been looking at the use of data in credit underwriting. By examining the … [Read more...] about Advancing financial inclusion. With Fintech.
Small versus big.
There's a history to small-scale development. It's what we did for centuries until industrial modernism brought large-scale development to our cities. Large-scale development The scale and cost of large developments falls into the realm of large-scale developers, and not always good ones. They have been the protagonists in the rapid transformation of our urban … [Read more...] about Small versus big.
The reluctant planner.
Self-described as a “planning geek” and “transport nerd,” Harriet Tregoning is a veteran smart-growth advocate who has been wrestling with issues of planning, mobility, disaster resilience, housing and community development issues for over two decades. Her work has centered both on resilience in the face of a changing climate, as well as on an economy based on enhancing quality … [Read more...] about The reluctant planner.