Lecture and panel discussion on “The Missing Middle”
Fri., Oct. 12, 8:30-11am
LeBow Hall
Drexel University
Gerri C. Lebow Hall
How did middle density housing go MISSING?
Architect Dan Parolek with expert panelists:
Kevin Gillen, Sarah Peck and Kara Kneidl
Housing production in the Philadelphia region is a density bar-bell: at one end high-density apartment complexes and at the other singles and towns. We create little in between.
The expert on those “missing middle housing” types is architect Dan Parolek of Berkeley, CA who will share strategies for sensitively providing new housing in existing centers. How can we provide affordably priced new housing in walkable settings? How can we satisfy demand for walkable communities without undermining the very character of these special places?
Dan will speak and then participate in a panel with:
- Kevin Gillen of Drexel’s Lindy Center for Urban Innovation
- Sarah Peck of Progressive Housing Ventures
- Kara Kneidl of Philly YIMBY (“Yes in my backyard”)
