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Seth: Hello and welcome to the New School for City Builders. I’m your host, Seth Zeren, a recovering city planner turned neighborhood developer in Providence, Rhode Island. This is a podcast about transforming the education of city builders. If we want to change how our cities and towns work, we need to change the people who run them. We need a new generation of city builders — architects, engineers, planners, developers, city managers, and civic leaders. We need a new school for city builders.
Joining me today is Allie Quinlan, an architect, landscape architect, and developer in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I met Allie many years ago through the Incremental Development Alliance (IncDev), where she was an early instructor and, for the last three years, has served as executive director. She’s a principal at Range, an architecture, planning, and landscape consulting firm based in Fayetteville, and a small-scale developer in her own right. Allie, welcome to the show.
Allie: Hi Seth, thanks so much for having me.
Seth: I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time. You and I have talked a lot about the importance of getting more people into development — so it’s not just run by the same old cast of characters. We need a lot more people doing this work. But before we get into that, let’s step back: to you, what does it mean to be a city builder?
Allie: …
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