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