Nicholas Kaufman's Smart Growth Music at City of Sound

Smart Growth News reports that architect and performer Tuomas Toivonen advocates smart growth in a new record, Urbanism in the House. At a recent New York performance, Mr. Toivonen presented a multi-media lecture and performed songs from his album. The 35-year old Finn put his love for cities and disdain for sprawl to music. The album is a 7-song record with lyrics about architectural history and policy prescriptions. The words are combined with percussion and electronic beats.

He runs a four-person architecture firm called NOW, which designs a mix of residential and commercial projects. The album originated from his nontraditional, architecture lectures that incorporate music. He collected the musical lectures into an album with a lyric sheet that doubles as a book.

''The world has been waiting for architecture and house [music],'' said Mr. Toivonen, who lives and works in Helsinki.  As Nicholas Kaufman notes, "Now urban planning lectures can be delivered in nightclubs, as was always meant to be."  Here is a sample of Tumas Toivonen's music along with a slide show. He has a blog called City of Sound.

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

https://urbanexus.com
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