30 Distillation Guidebook Co-Lab • 9.18–9.19 2025 The Small Cities Lab spoke with Ellie Abrons, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan and Planning Commissioner for the City of Ann Arbor. The conversation explored how working across academia, practice, and municipal governance can help bridge regulatory reform and housing production, and how architects and designers can play a more active role in the relational and regulatory work necessary to make development possible. Isabelle O’Toole The overarching question that we’ve heard from the Co-Lab was how do we move beyond zoning and policy reform to actually spur housing production? How does your position as both an architect and a planning commissioner create opportunities to bridge regulatory reform and implementation? 0:01 A Conversation with Ellie Abrons INTERVIEW
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