School of Architecture and Planning

Dear all, Tomorrow would be the date to submit your paper. Please hand in the physical copies in class tomorrow. For those of you who are presenting tomorrow, please kindly email me your file to me tonight or latest tomorrow morning before class, like at 10. Thanks! good luck on your paper. best, Damian

Dear Class, We will have our course evaluation tomorrow during class. Please come. The list of the coming Tuesday presenters: Yang Jiang Benji Power Andrew Amey Yew Chin LEOW Ruifeng Tian For presenters, Please send me your powerpoint by Monday. Thanks. see you tomorrow. Damian

Dear class, For those of you who would like to present their papers in the last day of class in the coming Tuesday, please email me. So far i have Yang Jiang, Benji Power, and Andrew Amey in my list. For those who have emailed or confirmed with Francisca about presenting in the coming Tuesday, please email me again please. I am about to make the list of presenters. Thanks alot. best, Damian

Hi Class, Just a reminder, the final paper turn in date will be on dec 11th. Please mark it on your calendar. Please email Dennis or Francisca for appointment if you have any questions about your final paper. Thanks. best, Damian

Dear all, Dennis will like to urge you to join the CDD Forum today at 530pm@10-485 presented by Paula Collins.
Paula is one of our MIT MCP graduates who has terrific experience in city and development.
Please come to the talk. best, Damian *Tuesday, November 27, 2007* City Design and Development Forum Fall 2007 Speaker: Paula Collins, Chief Executive Officer, WDG Ventures, Inc. Time: 5:30 - 7:00 Location: *10-485* Living Urban Design Evenings stimulated by the work of John de Monchaux "*City Design and Real Estate Development*" Introduction by Dennis Frenchman (The Center of Real Estate was founded under John, the first in the
country and one of the few to insist on links to the design disciplines) ****************************** * Paula R. Collins is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of WDG
Ventures Inc., a real estate development and investment firm. WDG
Ventures Inc. is engaged in residential and commercial real estate
development in Northern California, with a portfolio of completed
properties and projects under development representing more than 1.7
million square feet valued in excess of $500 million. Most recently
completed in San Francisco are the Sony Metreon project and the Four
Seasons Residences and Hotel, developed in joint venture with Millennium
Partners of New York. WDG Ventures’ corporate emphasis is on mixed-use
entertainment retail projects, and community and economic development in
urban areas.

Since 1975, Ms. Collins professional involvement in the industry has
included economic and fiscal impact analysis, land use processing and
management responsibility for large-scale commercial, industrial,
medical, and residential developments. In the public sector, Ms. Collins
was part of the original project development team for the Moscone
Convention Center in San Francisco.

In March of 2000 Ms. Collins was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year
Award by the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc. She is one of
the recipients of the 1999 Rudy Bruner Award for Excellence in the Urban
Environment. Ms. Collins was featured in KGO-TV's “Profiles in
Excellence” broadcast for Black History Month 2001.

A cum laude graduate in urban studies from Mount Holyoke College in
1971, Ms. Collins received her Master of City Planning degree from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975.