SAMPLE OF TOPICS FOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS TOPICS: URBAN PLANNING - ZONING - URBAN RENEWAL - LANDMARKS OR 9/11 WTC EXPERIENCE A LECTURE OR TALK CAN BE DEVELOPED INDIVIDUALLY FOR YOUR GROUP OR CLASS. Many of these Lectures are also "Walking Tours". The curriculum is suited to your group's age. (From High School to Post Graduate.) Finally, a Land-Use Law/Real Estate/Planning Professor who makes "Housecalls"...

LAND USE LAW- Topics include: Urban renewal Eminent domain Landmarking Growth management Exclusionary and inclusionary zoning - NIMBYism Community Benefit Agreements Environmental Impact Statements Adult Use Zoning FOR EXAMPLE - TRUMP CONDO HOTEL PROJECT: Why is it legal?

ZONING STARTS IN LOWER MANHATTAN- Topics include: The history of how and why Zoning was created in America (Use and Bulk) The need for set-backs and sky exposures planes Transfer of Development Rights (Air Rights) Zoning Bonuses such as for Open Space Plazas, or Subway connections, etc. Floor Area Ratios (FAR) ULURP or due process for land use projects Real Estate Development cycles and in-rem process of tax foreclosures Grandfathered non-conforming uses and non-complying bulks This group was a Chinese delegation hosted by the American Planning Association (APA) who wanted a tour and lecture on Sustainability and the history of Land Use in New York City. (October 2010)

NEW AMSTERDAM TO NEW YORK CITY TO NEW ORANGE TO NEW YORK CITY- Along with a walking tour, the topic of religious freedom and taxation and other Dutch impacts on American life and the City's physical form. Also a discussion of whether there really was a contract of sale to purchase Manhattan Island for 60 guilders? What was life like for homosexuals and Native Americans and Africans during this period? This lecture is based on the book by Russell Shorto and supplemented by other sources.

LIVING 1,000 FEET FROM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER- The talk concerns living in Lower Manhattan before, during and after 9/11; from being displaced and coping with the tragedy of our times. I give a minute by minute account of what it was like from waking up to a beautiful sunny day to going to sleep on the floor of one's office. Then having to cope with the realities of having your neighborhood devastated and working your way back to a cleaned up home.

Other Topics: Dealing with Being Jewish, Gay, German, and a son of Holocaust Survivors

A SAMPLE OF SOME PAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: January 13, 2011 New York University Law School LGBT Rights Clinic - L02.2579.001 "Overview of the LeGal Walk-In Clinic” New York University Law School, 245 Sullivan Street, Room 604. Workshop III: Thursday 2:30 – 4:30 pm. Richard M. Landman, Esq. AICP. October 28-29, 2010 Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of NYS, Inc. 22nd Annual Affordable Housing Conference. “Revitalization: Building New York’s Future” New York Law School, NY. Workshop III: Thursday 2:20 – 3:50 pm. NIMBYism: The Implications of Prejudice in Our Backyard CLE credit available Moderator: Richard M. Landman, Esq. AICP. Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm New York Law School Center for Real Estate Studies Masters Class NYC's Real Estate Crisis of the 1970's-1980's... SHOULD THE CITY COMPETE WITH PRIVATE REAL ESTATE COMPANIES FOR PROFITS? The City's former Executive Director of Real Estate Development Will Discuss the Landbanking of dormant Urban Renewal Sites and the Sale of In-Rem Properties. Click Here to see the Outline for this Lecture Copy of one of the City's Real Estate Auction Brochures Several times a year the City sold non-residential properties to the highest bidder. Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Topic: HOW DID DONALD TRUMP BUILD A 42-45 STORY CONDO-HOTEL IN SOHO? New York Law School Center for Real Estate Studies Masters Class 12:50 pm to 1:50 pm Room C200 at New York Law School on Worth Street, NYC. Click Here to see the Outline for this Lecture Wednesday, September 26, 2008 Topic: REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT IN TRIBECA- GENTRIFICATION OR DESTRUCTION? New York Law School Center for Real Estate Studies Masters Class 12:50 pm to 1:50 pm Room B100 at New York Law School on Worth Street, NYC. Rick Landman, will discuss the history of Tribeca's development over the past 30 years, balancing the desires of the long term occupants (illegal tenants or "pioneers"), developers and new residents. The discussion will include the zoning implications of the Special TMU District and Landmarking, the New York Law School deed restriction, community board proposals and real estate cycles. Rick Landman, Esq. AICP, was the Executive Director of Real Estate Development for the City under Mayor Koch and was the Director of Real Estate Development for NYU for almost 20 years. He is a long term member of Community Board #1 having served as chair of the Landmarks Committee, Tribeca Committee and 197-a Planning Committee. He is also an adjunct professor of NYU's Wagner Schools required Land Use Law class for their graduate planning students. Please Click Here to Email for Reservations or and Questions