exchange 3: DEaling with legacy Inventory
Presenters: Maria Tereza Diniz (Program officer SEHAB, Sao Paulo), Brazil, and Mark Maloney (Boston World Partnerships), USA
Place: AHI Conference Room, 38 Chauncy Street, Suite 600, Boston, MA 02111
Date: May 7, 2009
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Lucky You: Dealing with Legacy Inventory
Housing and urban development properties, as we all know, endure for decades and take years in their creation. Yet municipal governments and mayors come and go, often halfway through the development cycle for an important civic project or comprehensive renewal or redesign plan. Every city thus has some inventory of legacy projects – long since completed and operating, or early in their operati ons, or even partway through a painful and protracted development-approval process. Some properties and even some subsidy or financing schemes are simply discarded if they are in early stages while others, i ncluding housing inventory, can end up left in limbo. Meanwhile, appointed public servants are expected to deal with the past – whether or not they favored the property, it exists and is part of the city – and plan the future developments. Therein lies the tension: How should one deal with the housing inventory that is passed from one local administration to the next? Mark Maloney and Maria Tereza Diniz shared their respective experiences with lively participant discussion. |
Previous Exchanges: 1: Leading from the Pack: Peer-Group Networks as Change Agents 2: The Community's Role in Complex Urban Redevelopment 3: Lucky You: Dealing with Legacy Inventory 4: Local Autonomy vs. State Controls in Urban Planning |
Global South
Maria Tereza Diniz, is a key executive within Sao Paulo’s Municipal Housing Secretariat (Sehab), which also oversees Sao Paulo’s inventory of previous and current slum redevelopment projects, including the Guarapiranga and Cingapura developments throughout the city. As a Program Coordinator for the transformation of Paraisópolis, Sao Paulo's second largest favela, with over 80,000 residents, she manages an investment of R$ 350 million in partnership with state and federal government.
Global North
Mark Maloney,has spent more than 35 years in startups and change management through community economic development, as an entrepreneur (founder of a successful property management company), director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) from 2000 through 2006, and currently focusing on international economic development. In all of these roles he has presided over or been involved in major and complex projects – each involving legacy properties and challenges that involve questions of how much of the past we should preserve.
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