Conversation on city design around matters that impact the climate, our health, or human equity rarely join up to meet at municipal cash flow. Yet it is the financial structures of economic policies and taxation that steers design. We live in cities driven by the fate of these policies rather than cities created by choices of design. Joe Minicozzi, principal of Urban3, will present several case studies that demonstrate how financial structures drive community form. Urban3 is internationally known for their use of data visualizations and 3D econometric modeling to better inform community conversations on design and public policy. Joe will also show various patterns of municipal economics and a present day analysis demonstrating the economic consequences. This work provides a critical framework of inquiry for any planner, policy maker, public administrator, elected official, or any citizen to better understand how our cities are shaped, and they in turn shape our behavior. Joe has a bachelor of architecture from the University of Miami and a masters of architecture in urban design from Harvard University. In 2017, he was listed on the Planetizen list for "Top 100 most influential urbanists of all time."
Joseph Minicozzi, AICP is the principal of Urban3. Prior to creating Urban3, he served as the Executive Director for the Asheville Downtown Association. Joe is an urban planner imagining new ways to think about and visualize land use, urban design and economics. Joe founded Urban3 to explain and visualize market dynamics created by tax and land use policies.
Joe holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami and Master of Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University. In 2017, Joe was recognized as one of the 100 Most Influential Urbanists of all time.
Before moving to Asheville, he was the primary administrator of the Form Based Code for downtown West Palm Beach, Florida. Joe's cross-training in city planning in the public and private sectors, as well as private sector real estate finance, has allowed him to develop award-winning analytic tools that have garnered national attention in Planetizen, The Wall Street Journal, Planning, New Urban News, Realtor, Atlantic Cities and the Center for Clean Air Policy's Growing Wealthier report. Joe is a sought-after lecturer on city planning issues. His work has been featured at the Congress for New Urbanism, the American Planning Association, the International Association of Assessing Officers, and New Partners for SmartGrowth conferences as a paradigm shift for thinking about development patterns.
Joe is a founding member of the Asheville Design Center, a non-profit community design center dedicated to creating livable communities across all of Western North Carolina. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from University of Miami and Masters in Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University.