8:00-8:30 Breakfast and Greeting

8:30-10:15 Institutional Developers

Max Hirsh, Airport City Academy

Airports as Real Estate Developers: A Transnational Perspective

Andrew McGee, Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum

Selling a Starter Home for the Internet: Real Estate, Built Environment, and Data Centers in Northern Virginia, 1994-2020

Robin Scheffler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biotechnology from the Ground Up: Labor and Value in Life Sciences Real Estate

Comment: Gabrielle Esperdy, New Jersey Institute of Technology

10:45-12:30 International Dimensions

Konstantina Kalfa, Athens School of Fine Arts

Unpacking the near-obscuring ordinary in the 1960s and 1970s Athens

Daniel Richter, American University and University of Maryland

Nordelta and the Hemispheric Worlds of Real Estate Developers in the Americas, 1990-2020

Davide Spina, The University of Hong Kong

Doomed Dreams: SGI’s Transatlantic Ventures, 1961–72

Comment: Matthew G. Lasner

12:30-1:30 Lunch (on site)

1:30-3:15 Residential

Todd Michney, Georgia Institute of Technology

LaDale C. Winling, Virginia Tech

Supporting Segregated Suburbanization: The Federal Housing Administration, Black Homebuilding, and Civil Rights, 1947-1956

Laura Redford, Brigham Young University

The Los Angeles Realty Board and the Creation of Sprawl

Elaine Stiles, Roger Williams University

The Builder as Designer: Negotiating Consumer Preferences in Mid-Twentieth Century Suburban Home Building

Comment: Richard Longstreth, George Washington University

3:45-5:30 Environmental Considerations

Jacob Anbinder, Cornell University

The Biggest Slum on the Face of the Earth: How the Postwar Revolt Against Urban Development Made Modern America

Jack Hanly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Public Demands and Private Development in the Age of Ecology: The Case of Sea Ranch v. California Coastal Commission

Juliana Maxim, University of San Diego

Power Flows: Water and Real Estate Development in Southern California

Comment: Anna Andrzejewski, University of Wisconsin

5:30-6:30 Reception

Real Estate Development and the Built Environment