Uploaded December 2014 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
The scale of “urban” is shifting back to a human scale. Developers are embracing smaller, compact projects. Urban residents are investing directly into their neighborhoods with their time and money. In places as disparate as Austin and Buffalo, remnants of mid-20th century mega-infrastructure expansion, now showing their impermanence and insufficiencies, are being re-approached with smaller impacts and repurpose in mind. Hear how new tech, new tools, and new ideas are solving the problem of scale by getting smaller and designing for people, with people.
Speaker: Robert Orr, Principal, Robert Orr & Associates
The scale of “urban” is shifting back to a human scale. Developers are embracing smaller, compact projects. Urban residents are investing directly into their neighborhoods with their time and money. In places as disparate as Austin and Buffalo, remnants of mid-20th century mega-infrastructure expansion, now showing their impermanence and insufficiencies, are being re-approached with smaller impacts and repurpose in mind. Hear how new tech, new tools, and new ideas are solving the problem of scale by getting smaller and designing for people, with people.
Speaker: Robert Orr, Principal, Robert Orr & Associates
