ABOUT INFOTRUE.COM INFOTRUE.COM is a website that was created by Rick Landman on August 27, 1997. It was originally intended to assist several not-for-profit and community groups to have a place on the internet. Now it focuses on how to find out more about Professor Landman's "Walking Tours or Classrooms Without Walls" and other Speaking Engagement topics with "The Professor Who Makes Housecalls". These are not your typical kind of tours. These tours are walking lectures based on the specific group's needs. After the first time, they then become a standard "off the rack" tour and are listed on the homepage. But it is always possible for another unique experience to be created for your group or class. In addition to focusing on land use law, urban planning and real estate development topics; the website also focuses on LGBT issues, Jewish issues, Familial History, Second Generation Holocaust issues, and other things that are important to its webmaster. This is because Rick Landman is not only a certified planner for over 30 years (AICP) with the American Institute of Certified Planners, but is also a land use attorney and was a professor for seven years. He has lived in Lower Manhattan south of Chambers Street for 30 years, which is around 1,000 feet from the northern end of the World Trade Center. Most of the tours will pass by the WTC and he will explain what it was like to live through that period of our history. Finally, Rick became a dual American-German citizen in 2007 and is the son of two German Holocaust Survivors. He is active in archiving his family's history in various museums and institutes and incorporates much of this background in various tours. Another part of his personal history is his long term involvement in America's LGBT movement, starting with his founding of the Gay Liberation Front in his college in 1970 and participation in numerous marches and organizations over the years. ABOUT THE TOUR GUIDE/SPEAKER Rick Landman, Esq., a Native New Yorker, has been an AICP Certified Planner for over 30 years, and an Attorney since 1988 and an Attorney Emeritus since 2010. He was an adjunct Professor of Planning at NYU's Wagner School and taught a Land Use law class from 2003-2009. His class was a required core 4 credit class for the Urban Planning Masters students. He is now an adjunct Professor at New York Law School, also teaching a land use law class since 2010. Rick has been an AICP planner since 1978 and has been a member of the APA New York Metro Chapter Zoning Committee for decades. Rick has 3 Masters Degrees (M.C.R.P. in City and Regional Planning, Ed.M. in Curriculum Development, M.S. in Civil (Socio) Engineering) and a J.D. in law(cum laude). He was the Executive Director of Real Estate Development for the City of New York for 5 years and was the Director of Real Estate Development at NYU for 19 years. One of the Masters Degrees was an Ed.M. in Curriculum Planning, so if you want a "Tour in the Classroom" lecture that can also be arranged. The lectures will be age appropriate to your class's needs. Rick was the chair of several committees of Community Board #1 Manhattan, including the chair of the Planning & Community Infrastructure Committee, the Tribeca Committee and chaired what is now called the Landmarks Committee when Tribeca was first designated in 1992. He moved into a Lower Manhattan converted apartment in the 1970's, that is approximately 1,000 feet from the World Trade Center. He is a licensed NYC Sightseeing Tour Guide. License No.: 1281818 exp. 3/31/12. On a personal basis, he is a Native New Yorker, born to two German Holocaust Survivors. He also started the Gay Liberation Front at SUNY Buffalo in 1970 and has been active in LGBT political advances ever since. Finally, in 2005 he returned a Torah scroll to his grandfather's hometown and became a dual American/German citizen in 2007. CONTACT INFORMATION Rick Landman, Esq. AICP 261 Broadway - 8C New York, NY 10007 (212) 233-7867 Click Here to Email Infotrue.com