Taubman College

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Christopher Leinberger

Professor of Practice in Urban and Regional Planning

Director of the Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development

Office: 1248A

cleinber@umich.edu

Teaching Areas:

  • Downtown Redevelopment,
  • Real Estate Company Strategic Planning
  • Real estate Development and Real Estate Market and Financial Analysis

Chris Leinberger is a land use strategist, developer, and author helping to make progressive development profitable. He is a visiting fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., focusing on research and practices that help transform traditional and suburban downtowns and other places to provide "walkable urbanity." Leinberger has written award-winning articles for publications such as the Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, and Urban Land magazine, among others. He has been profiled by national broadcast and print media such as CNN and the Today Show, among others. Leinberger is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Business School.