Regenerating Neighborhoods with Cultural Heritage: Jeffrey Morgan at TEDxDesMoines City 2.0

Jeffrey Morgan is Director of Real Estate Development for Historic Boston Incorporated. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Iowa State University and his Master in Real Estate and Urban Development degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His design work has garnered awards in affordable housing, historic preservation, master planning, and urban design. Jeffrey is an Edward M. Gramlich Fellow of the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies and NeighborWorks America, where his research involves the role of community development corporations at the intersection of micro-business development and inner-city neighborhood business district redevelopment.
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[@DeeJayram0s]

this is so true. its an amzing feeling you feel as you learn more and more about the world around you.

[@jalan8885]

Great points about the importance of "neighborhoods" Jeffery. This revitalization has been happening in Southern California for the last 15 years or so, much more livable than the 70 or so years prior, where people drove on the freeways (after 1950) pulled into their garages, with house attached, and never or rarely interacting with their local community. Jerry M

[@twinklegallery]

Ironically he NEVER spoke of enslaved Africans and slavery as major contributors to the physical and cultural development of America and "Urban" development.

[@danc1180]

This lecture is hard to follow