Geoffrey Booth - Australia, Japan, and Land Development

Youngblood endowed
Professor of land development
Texas A&M University.

Blooms taxonomy revised.

What do I know?How do I know?Why is it relevant?Where does our knowledge come from?

• Personal experience.
• Appeal comes from how people relate from their own experience.
• Movies music and the arts. (YouTube, indie, pop culture)
• The internet and other media.
• Books and libraries.
• Friends and colleagues.

• Knowledge
• Understand
• Apply
• Analyze
• Evaluate
• Create

Real estate development

Seize the opportunities that present themselves.
Real estate is all about place and how people use it.
Perception of place. The phenomenology of place.
Property developers are best when they’ve experienced other places and people.

Rebuilding of parliament.
We create infrastructure and then it changes how we interact with it.
We shape our buildings and then they shape us.

We can practice globally because we speak English and finance laws are essentially universal.
Not all ethics are the same but theories are essentially universal.

“Know no fear.”

We are afraid of failure and that holds us back. And you will never get out of bed if you are adverse to risk.

The golden circle ted talk.

What creates value in real estate.

• Concepualization
• Design
• Delivery
• Activation
• Management

Components of value.

• Economic
• Socio cultural
• Environmental
• Sensory