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Deliver a 1200 word discussion to your professor by uploading the…
Deliver a 1200 word discussion to your professor by uploading the document to the course’s Brightspace site.
Recommended Readings:
Impact Investing: Transforming how we make money while making a difference. Anthony Bugg-Levine, 2011
Students may want to read the preface and introduction and then choose two or three chapters that appear to be of particular interest to you.
Book can be found on-line through NYU libraries
Building Revolutions: Applying the Circular Economy to the Built Environment. David Cheshire, 2016
Students should read preface and introduction, and then choose two to three chapters on topics that are of particular interest to you.
Book can be read through NYU library site. A word document with the text (minus the pictures) has been uploaded to the readings folder in Brightspace, title “Cheshire book i.”
Transformational Thought: Radical Ideas to Remake the Built Environment. Jason McLennan, 2012
Book available for purchase.
The New Carbon Architecture. Bruce King, 2017.
I’ve uploaded a PDF of this book, titled “King~carbon” to the resources/readings folder in Brightspace.
Task:
Consider what you knew about real estate and its intersections with the natural environment before you took this class’s half semester focus on the environment. Consider what you anticipated to be your anticipated career trajectory before you took this class’s half semester focus on the environment. Consider the stakeholders in the real estate finance and development processes who you recognize you will be working with in your ideal next job, based on your assumptions before you took this half semester focus on the environment. Consider the backgrounds of these stakeholders and perhaps lack of introduction/education in sustainability (which you now have from taking this half semester class). Read selected chapters from two of the books on the list of recommended readings (above)*. Explore in a written essay how your career trajectory (as well as the trajectory of what you hope to study and intersect with in the remainder of your time at Schack) are affected or informed by content of your selected readings (from the list above). You are welcome and encouraged to also bring into consideration any other assigned readings from earlier in this half semester’s focus on the environment.
Some optional discussion prompts:
Given what you now know about the intersection between the natural and the built environment, what stakeholders in the process of finance (or development…depending on your career track) will need to be most aggressively or radically engaged (or supported, or redirected) for you to have a meaningful impact on the built and natural environment through your work?
What changes must be brought to the processes and practices of these stakeholders, thereby enabling you to succeed in pursuing integration of sustainability into your own practices?
What barriers exist among the stakeholders who you have identified? What mechanisms (market mechanisms and tools such as but not limited to GRESB) and what mandates (such as but not limited to the Climate Mobilization Act and Local Law 97) need to be brought to market dynamics among stakeholders?
Given your initial interest in real estate development (or finance), and given what you now know about the intersections between the market drivers of sustainability, how will you pursue your career, as initially conceived, if you choose to avoid or circumvent the trend and demand for sustainability. Consider the various stakeholders in your supply chain and the pressures or requirements placed on them by the trends toward sustainability.
* If there’s something else that you’ve read, or have wanted to read, that you want to use as a substitute for one of the recommended readings, drop me an email. Let’s discuss.
