How to Demystify the Politics and Planning of Cities | Lynne Sagalyn

Lynne Sagalyn is an expert in real estate development and finance and author of three books. She is the person for demystifying the politics and planning of cities. She gives us the theory and thinking behind how and why cities exist as they do today. She has been an educator and scholar for over 40 years. She built an innovative and rigorous program of graduate studies in commercial real estate finance and investment strategy at Columbia business school. She explains how cities are built and redeveloped and endeavors to demystify the politics and planning process surrounding large scale development projects and their impacts on the physical fabric of cities. In the corporate world, she serves as the director and chair of the audit committee of Blackstone Mortgage Trust, is a board member of Morgan Stanley’s Prime Fund, and the advisory board of Olshan Properties.

Top Takeaways:
-The importance of city planning in shaping growth in the cities and the politics of how it happens
-How large-scale developments create neighborhoods yet are very risky to complete
-Why young people find it difficult to find a passion in something that fuels them every day
-The importance of understanding history and how it relates to systemic racism outcry that’s currently going on
-The challenge of slowed economic activity that cities are facing which will lead to fiscal cut back due to COVID-19 pandemic

In this episode you'll discover:
-She explains why and how she became an educator; plus, the impacts she’s made for her students and the public-private development sector [2:05]
-How the scale of cities development has tremendously grown over the last 20 years creating complexities [4:54]
-Lynne explains the positives and negatives of large-scale development of cities [7:48]
-She explains how she tells the story by engaging people in charge of decisions and reading related documents [10:24]
-The strategic style she uses to interviews people to get the correct information without violating anyone’s rights [12:46]
-Lynne explains why she believes the people, her books, and the inspiration to work hard is her legacy [15:06]
-The economic and community impacts of city justification which has become part of the politics of urban living today [17:48]
-How neighborhoods were created by redlining which was caused by racial discrimination and inequities [21:07]
-The activism surrounding the housing finance sector and why there’s a need for elimination of existing bias [24:11]
-The post-COVID economic challenges on cities that will require strong leaders to overcome [25:25]
-The dynamic of remote work after COVID and how it’s going to change the office space [27:52]
-Lynne advises young people to find what they’re passionate about and then do it as a career [31:21]

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