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Zach Mortice is an architectural journalist based in Chicago. He is interested in the adaptive reuse of post-industurial landscapes, the interaction of architecture with pop-culture, and above all, cities and urbanism. He is currently a contributing writer at Bloomberg CityLab and was the web editor for Landscape Architecture Magazine from September of 2016 to July of 2022. His work has appeared in Architect Magazine, Architectural Record, Metropolis, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Curbed, Dezeen, The Atlantic’s CityLab, and Places Journal. He is the editor of Midwest Architecture Journeys, published by Belt in 2019.

Ben Schulman is an urbanist. For over 15 years, he has been crafting—and implementing—design, development, creative capital, and communications strategies that unlock the power of place. His work has been delivered across the academic, arts, culture, nonprofit, and private sectors to foster connections between people, place, culture, and the built environment. Ben’s writing has been published in ARCHITECT, CityLab, ICON, Metropolis, and New Geography, among other outlets, and he was the editor of Chicago Architect magazine and Newcity’s Design section.

John Tolva is the leader of PositivEnergy Practice, a Chicago-based clean tech systems engineering firm for buildings and cities. He served as Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Chief Technology Officer for the City of Chicago from 2011 to 2013. From 1998 to 2011 he worked for IBM on applications of technology in cultural, social, and environmental domains.