Episode #82: From Colonial Port Towns to Gateway Markets: 250 Years of America’s Built Environment

As we celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, the Front & Center podcast takes a look at the history of the built environment in the U.S. CenterSquare Advisory Board member Joe Gyourko, MartinBucksbaum Professor of Real Estate, Finance and Business & Public Policy at Wharton, former Director of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center and current Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research joins host and Senior Investment Strategist Uma Moriarity to examine how the cities and physical spaces we live in evolved over the long-term. Uma and Joe discuss the forces driving urban growth, including why some cities adapt and thrive while others decline, what decades of zoning restrictions have done to housing affordability, and what it might take to build the next great American city.