2025 Symposium

Location: Tufts University, Building

2025 Program

October 17th 2025

Symposium Schedule

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Check-In

9:00 AM-9:15 AM: Welcome Remarks by Justin Hollander 

9:15 AM-9:20 AM: Welcome by Eitan Hersh 

9:20 AM-9:45 AM: Jen Fox Opening Keynote

9:45 AM-10:05 AM: Networking Break

10:05 AM-11:40 AM: Panel presentation A

Moderator: Elijah Romulus

Speakers: 

  • Sepideh Azizi
    New Town Development as a Response to Rapid Urbanization: Zoning Innovations and Challenges with Housing Affordability
  • Minjee Kim
    Regulatory Framework for Enabling Mixed-Use, High-Density Master Planned Communities: Insights from Florida
  • Joseph Weil Huennekens
    Litigation as a Blockage for Housing Barrier
  • Lincoln Lewis
    Procession, Exhumation, and Creating a Community in a Garden: Singapore’s Bidadari Estate 

11:45 AM-12:30 PM: Lunch

12:30 PM-2:10 PM: Panel Presentation B

Moderator: Jesse Kanson-Benanav 

Speakers: 

  • Edward Pinto
    Freedom Cities
  • Nir Buras
    Toward Inheritable Urbanism: Classic Planning and Urban Beauty
  • Ken Schwartz
    New Towns in Action: Master Planned Communities in Queens, NY and Cape Cod, MA

2:10 PM-2:20 PM: Networking Break

2:20 PM-2:45 PM: Jonathan Gruber Closing Keynote

3:00 PM: Wrap up by Justin Hollander