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Amanda Burden
| DirectorNYC Department of City Planning
Amanda Burden, Chair of the New York City Planning Commission, received
the prestigious Design Patron award at the 2004 National Design Awards
at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Prior to her
appointment as Chair, Burden was a member of the City Planning
Commission, Director of Planning at the Center for Court Innovation,
Coordinator for Planning and Development at the Midtown Community Court
Project, Vice President of Planning and Design at the Battery Park City
Authority, and Vice President of Architecture and Design at the NYS
Urban Development Corporation. An urban planner and civic activist,
Burden is an honorary member of the AIA, American Institute of
Architects, and a member of the AICP, the American Institute of
Certified Planners. Burden received a BA at Sarah Lawrence College and
an MS in Urban Planning at Columbia University Graduate School of
Architecture.
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Honor Chapman
| Board Member London Development Agency and Transport
for London
Honor Chapman is consultant to international real estate services and
investment management company Jones Lang LaSalle, where she has been a
Partner and International Director since 1979. She has been Vice Chair
of the LDA since July 2000. Chapman is a Crown Estates Commissioner,
Chairman of the London Office Review Panel, Member of the Investment
Committee of the Goldsmith’s Company and Chairman of the Burlington
Gardens Development Committee for the Royal Academy. She specialises in
property research, business strategy and urban development. Prior to her
position at Jones Lange LaSalle, she was a partner in Nathaniel
Lichfield and Partners, an urban economics consultancy. Chapman is a
Sloan Fellow of the London Business School and has been seconded as
Chief Executive of the London First Centre. In 1997 she was awarded a
CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in the Queen’s New Year’s honours
list for her services to the property industry.
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Susan Christopherson
| ProfessorCornell University, City and Regional Planning Department
Susan Christopherson is an economic geographer whose research focuses
on: industry restructuring and its implications for economic
development; trends in urban labour markets, particularly labour
flexibility; and location patterns in service industries, particularly
the audio-visual and new media industries. In October 2004 she was a
faculty visitor in The Management Centre at King's College London,
presenting her research on national differences in the evolution of New
Media work. Among her recent publications are: "The Limits to 'New
Regionalism:' (Re) Learning from the Media Industries," Geoforum
Volume 34, (2003) Transition and Renewal: The Emergence of a Diverse
Upstate Economy (co-authored with Rolf Pendall and Matthew Drennan)
(2004). She is currently engaged in research on the media industry in
New York City and on upstate New York economic development strategies.
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Shaun Donovan
| CommissionerNYC Housing Preservation and Development
Department
Shaun Donovan was named Commissioner of the New York City Department of
Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) in 2004 by Mayor Bloomberg.
Commissioner Donovan is responsible for implementing Mayor Bloomberg's
$3 billion housing initiative, "Housing in the New Marketplace:
Creating Housing for the Next Generation," which will fund the
creation or preservation of 65,000 units of housing over five years. It
is the City's most ambitious housing plan in over 20 years. Previously
Donovan was the Managing Director of Prudential Mortgage Capital Company
and CEO of one of the nations largest Federal Housing Administration
lenders. Donovan has a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard, a Masters in Architecture from Harvard
Graduate School of Design. He is affiliated with the Joint Center for
Housing Studies at Harvard University, the National Housing Conference,
and the National Housing Trust.
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Jeff Fagan
| Professor of Law and Public Health
Columbia University Law School
Jeffrey Fagan is a Professor of Law and Public Health at Columbia
University. His research and scholarship focuses on crime, law and
social policy. His current and recent research examines social contagion
of violence, legal socialization of adolescents, the social geography of
domestic violence, legal and illegal work, the jurisprudence of
adolescent crime, drug control policy, capital punishment, racial
profiling, and perceived legitimacy of the criminal law. He is a member
of the Committee on Law and Justice of the U.S. National Academy of
Science, the National Consortium on Violence Research, the MacArthur
Foundation's Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile
Justice, and the Working Group on Legitimacy and the Criminal Law of the
Russell Sage Foundation. He is past Editor of the Journal of Research in
Crime and Delinquency, and es on the editorial boards of several
journals on crime, criminology, and law. He is a Fellow of the American
Society of Criminology. He has been awarded fellowships by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation. He received a Soros Senior Justice Fellow from
the Open Society Institute.
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Ester Fuchs
| Special Advisor to the MayorGovernance and Strategic Planning, City of New
York
Ester Fuchs is the Special Advisor for Governance and Strategic Planning
in Michael Bloomberg's mayoral administration. Fuchs is a Professor of
Political Science at Barnard College and Columbia University and Chair
of the Urban Studies Program and Public Affairs. A long-time director of
the Columbia University Center for Urban Research and Policy, Fuchs is
also the author of Mayors and Money: Fiscal Policy in New York and
Chicago and has received grants to analyse public policy and political
participation, including: implementation of the National Voter
Registration Act; evaluation of the federal homeless policy; political
participation in New York City and New York State; and US Department of
Housing and Urban Development evaluation of the federal homeless policy.
Fuchs received a B.A. from Queens College, an M.A. from Brown
University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of
Chicago.
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Katherine N.
Lapp | Executive DirectorMetropolitan
Transport Authority
Katherine N. Lapp is the Executive Director of the Metropolitan
Transport Authority (MTA). She was the first woman to serve as Executive
Director since the MTA's creation in 1968. Previously, she served for
four years as New York State Director of Criminal Justice and
Commissioner of the Division of Criminal Justice Services. During this
time she was Governor Pataki's primary advisor on criminal justice
policy, including budgetary, legislative, and programmatic initiatives.
Before that, Lapp was the New York City Criminal Justice Coordinator
under former-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani from 1994-1997, advising on criminal
justice policy and overseeing the City's public safety agencies with a
combined annual budget of $4 billion. She served as Chief of Staff and
Special Counsel to the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety from 1990-1993
under former-Mayor David Dinkins. Lapp, an attorney, received her
Bachelor of Arts degree from Fairfield University and her law degree
from Hofstra University School of Law.
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John
Mollenkopf | Professor and Director Center
for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Centre
John Mollenkopf is professor of Political Science and Sociology at the
CUNY Graduate Center where he directs the Center for Urban Research. He
has authored or edited six books on urban politics, urban policy, and
New York City. In 1998, he was Wibaut Chair Distinguished Visiting
Professor at the Center for the Metropolitan Environment at the
University of Amsterdam. Prior to joining the Graduate Center in 1981,
he directed the Economic Development Division of the New York City
Department of City Planning and taught urban studies and public
management at Stanford University. His current research focuses on the
immigrant second generation and native minority young adults in the New
York metropolitan area. Other projects include analysing the spatial
patterns of crime in New York City, comparing economic restructuring and
social stratification in New York, Tokyo, London, and Paris, and a book
on "Rethinking the Urban Agenda" with Peter Dreier and Todd
Swanstrom.
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Guy Nordenson |
Professor of Structural EngineeringPrinceton University
Guy Nordenson began his career as a structural engineer drafting for
Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi. In 1987 he established Ove Arup
& Partners' New York office, where he was a director until 1997,
when he formed his own office. Nordenson has collaborated on structures
ranging from power stations in China to a glass cantilever stair in New
York. Recent projects include Steven Holl Architects' new MIT Simmons
Hall residence; The Museum of Modern Art with Taniguchi and Associates;
and New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York with SANAA architects.
Nordenson is active in earthquake engineering. He is co-founder of the
Structural Engineer's Association of New York and organised the
inspections of 400 buildings in the restricted zone around the World
Trade Center after 9/11. In 2004 he co-curated an exhibition on Tall
Buildings at MOMA, and saw the books WTC Emergency Building Damage
Assessments and Tall Buildings published.
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Robert
Paaswell | Professor and DirectorInstitute
for Urban Systems, City University of New York
Dr. Robert Paaswell is Professor of Civil Engineering at City College of
New York and Director of the CUNY Institute of Urban Systems. He is
Director of the University Transportation Research Centre (UTRC), a
federally funded centre that provides research and training to
transportation professionals throughout USDOT Region II. He has been
involved in transportation operations, management and planning since the
late 1960s. From 1980-1982, Paaswell was Chairman of the Urban Planning
Department at SUNY Buffalo. He served as Director of the Urban
Transportation Centre at the University of Illinois, from 1982-1986. and
as Executive Director (CEO) of the Chicago Transit Authority, the second
largest system in the U.S. from 1986-1989. He lectures and consults
nationally and internationally on policy and management issues. and
serves as a mediator in a path breaking labour management productivity
issue for New York City Transit.
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Karen A.
Phillips | CommissionerNYC
Planning Department
Karen A. Phillips was appointed to the New York City Planning Commission
in 2002. She also provides professional consulting services in community
development to private planning and development firms, community
development corporations and municipalities. She is often a participant
in discussions about urban issues while sharing her experience and
expertise with graduate educational programs and community development
professionals. Phillips was one of the founders and, later, President and
Chief Executive Officer of the Abyssinian Development Corporation, a
community-based, not-for-profit organisation which has invested almost
$200 million in the Harlem community under her leadership, creating over
1,000 units of housing, and fostering proposals for commercial projects.
She serves on the Fannie Mae North East Regional Office Housing and
Community Development Advisory Board, the State Farm Bank Community
Reinvestment Advisory Board, and the coordinating committee of New York
2050, a participatory visioning process for the metropolitan region.
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Richard Ravitch| PrincipalRavitch Rice & Company
Richard Ravitch is a Principal in Ravitch Rice & Co. LLC and one of
the most influential members of New York's business community. He is
Chair of the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust, and the Corporation for
Supportive Housing. He is also past Chair of HRH Construction
Corporation, which built more than 35,000 apartments for low- and
middle-income families in New York, Washington DC, and San Juan, Puerto
Rico. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Ravitch to the United
States Commission on Urban Problems. In 1975, at the request of Governor
Hugh Carey of New York, Ravitch assumed the Chairmanship of the near
bankrupt New York State Urban Development Corporation, successfully
keeping the corporation solvent and completing construction of 30,000
low-income housing units. For the five years following, he served as the
Chair of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, improving the
region's transportation infrastructure.
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Nick Retsinas
| Director Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard
University
Nicolas Retsinas is Director of Harvard University's Joint Center for
Housing Studies, a collaborative venture of the Harvard Design School
and the Kennedy School of Government. Retsinas is also a Lecturer in
Housing Studies at the Harvard Design School and the Kennedy School of
Government. Prior to his Harvard appointment, Retsinas served as
Assistant Secretary for Housing to the Federal Housing Commissioner at
the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. President
Clinton also appointed Retsinas to serve as Director of the Office of
Thrift Supervision. Retsinas served on the Board of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing Finance Board and the
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. He also served the State of Rhode
Island as the Executive Director of the Rhode Island Housing and
Mortgage Finance Corporation from 1987-1993. He received his master's
degree in city planning from Harvard University and his AB in economics
from New York University.
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Daniel Rose
| President and CEO Rose Associates
Daniel Rose, Chairman of Rose Associates, Inc., a New York-based real
estate organisation, has pursued a career involving a broad range of
professional, civic, and non-profit activity. Professionally, he
developed the award-winning Pentagon City complex in Arlington, and the
One Financial Center office tower in Boston. He also created and
implemented the "housing for the performing arts" concept for
New York's Manhattan Plaza. Rose, who for a decade was a Director of
U.S. Trust Corporation, is now a Director of over 20 Dreyfus-sponsored
mutual funds. He teaches, lectures, and writes on a variety of real
estate and planning subjects. Rose has served as "Expert
Advisor" to the Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, and as "Expert/Consultant" to the Commissioner of
Education. Rose was appointed by the President as Vice Chairman of the
Baltic-American Enterprise Fund. He is also founder and president of the
highly-acclaimed Harlem Educational Activities Fund.
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Jonathan Rose
| PresidentJonathan Rose Companies LLP
Jonathan Rose is President of Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a network of
community and land use planning and development firms that collaborate
with cities, towns and not-for-profits to plan and develop
environmentally responsible projects by creating vibrant, diverse
cultural centres with a balance of jobs, housing, open land and mass
transit. Rose is an innovator in bringing together solutions to
planning, community development, finance, culture and land preservation.
In 1980, he developed the first live/work community with internet access
in every home. Since then, his projects have consistently modelled new
solutions to development, environmental and community problems
including: low income housing for homeless people with AIDS, seniors and
first time home buyers; and state-of-the-art academic buildings,
performing arts centres and libraries. All of his projects are
"green." Rose is a leading thinker in the Smart Growth and
green building movements, and a frequent speaker on the subjects.
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Michael Sorkin
| PrincipalMichael Sorkin Studio,
NYC
Michael Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio, a New York
City design practice devoted to both practical and theoretical projects
at all scales, with a special interest in the city. Recent projects
include: masterplanning in Hamburg and Schwerin, Germany; planning for a
Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem; and studies of the Manhattan
waterfront and Arverne, Queens. Sorkin is the Director of the Graduate
Urban Design Program at the City College of New York. From 1993-2000 he
was Professor of Urbanism and Director of the Institute of Urbanism at
the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He has taught at numerous
universities including Cooper Union, Columbia, Yale, Harvard and
Cornell. Well known as the architecture critic of The Village Voice, his
books include: Some Assembly Required, Other Plans, The Next Jerusalem,
and After The Trade Center (edited with Sharon Zukin).
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Marilyn Taylor
| PartnerSOM Architects
Marilyn Jordan Taylor is the Chairman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
(SOM). She is an architect and urban designer whose projects focus on
various aspects of the public realm. Since 1971 she has been an integral
part of SOM. Taylor has worked extensively in transport planning,
residential development, regeneration and civic projects. Taylor's
involvement in civic activities includes acting as president for the New
York Chapter of the American Institute Of Architects and serving on the
boards of the New York Building Congress, the Institute for Urban
Design, the New York Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), and on the
Fellows Advisory Committee of the New York City Partnership. In addition
to winning numerous urban design awards, Taylor has twice been named on
Crain's list of Most Influential Women in New York.
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Tony Travers
| DirectorGreater London Group, London School of Economics
and Political Science
Tony Travers is Director of the Greater London Group, a research centre
at the London School of Economics. He is also Expenditure Advisor to the
House of Commons Select Committee on Education and Skills, a Senior
Associate at the King's Fund and a member of the Arts Council of
England's Touring Panel. He was, from 1992-1997, a Member of the Audit
Commission and has worked for a number of other Parliamentary select
committees. Travers was a member of the Working Group on Finance, Urban
Task Force in 1998-1999. He has published a number of books on cities
and government, including, Paying for Health, Education and Housing, How
does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings (with Howard Glennerster and John
Hills) (2000) and, most recently, The Politics of London: Governing the
Ungovernable City (2004).
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Carl Weisbrod
| PresidentTrinity Real Estate
Carl Weisbrod, an attorney, is the President of Trinity Real Estate.
Previously, he was the President of the Alliance for
Downtown New York, Inc. The Alliance is an $8.6 million business
improvement district established in 1995 to spearhead the revitalisation
of Lower Manhattan. Weisbrod is also the President of the Downtown-Lower
Manhattan Association which represents the major business organisations
in the Wall Street area. From 1990-1994 Weisbrod was the President of
the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC), the city's
agent for economic development. From the late 1970s until 1994, Weisbrod
led the successful efforts to transform the Times Square area, first as
the Director of the Mayor's Office of Midtown Enforcement, then as the
Executive Director of the City Planning Commission and then as the
President of the New York State 42nd Street Development Project, Inc.
Weisbrod serves as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
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Kathryn Wylde
| President and CEO Partnership for New York City
Kathryn Wylde is President and CEO of the Partnership for New York City,
an organisation of New York's top business leaders. The organisation is
dedicated to mobilising private resources to help deal with challenges
facing the city in the areas of education, public policy and economic
development. It manages a $100 million civic investment fund, of which
Wylde is CEO. An internationally known expert in housing and economic
development, Wylde has advised or consulted with foundations, cities and
nonprofit organisations. Currently, she serves on the boards of the
Biomedical Research Alliance of New York, the TeleMedia Accelerator, the
Manhattan Institute, and the Research Foundation of the City University
of New York. She is on the Advisory Boards of the Brookings
Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, the Center for an Urban
Future, the Center for a New Economy (Puerto Rico) and the Publications
Committee of City Journal.
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Robert Yaro |
PresidentRegional Plan Association
Robert D. Yaro is the President of RPA. From 1990-2001 he served as
RPA's Executive Director. RPA is America's oldest independent
metropolitan research and advocacy group. Yaro led the five-year effort
to prepare RPA's Third Regional Plan, A Region at Risk, which he
co-authored in 1996. He chairs The Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown
New York, a coalition of civic groups formed to guide redevelopment in
Lower Manhattan following the September 11 attacks. Yaro is currently
Practice Professor in City and Regional planning at the University of
Pennsylvania. He has also served on the faculties of Harvard and
Columbia Universities. From 1985-1989 Yaro was Associate Professor of
City & Regional Planning at the University. Previously Yaro served
as Chief Planner and then Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts
Department of Environmental Management where he developed and led the
state's largest urban revitalisation and environmental protection
programs.
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Sharon Zukin |
Professor of SociologyCity University of New York
Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the City
University Graduate Center. She is one of the world's leading
authorities on the role of cultural policy in urban regeneration and has
been active in recent debates around the costs and benefits of Olympic
bids to the cities involved. The author of many books and articles,
Zukin edited, with Michael Sorkin, After the World Trade Center:
Rethinking New York City (2002). Her book, Landscapes of Power: From
Detroit to Disney World (1991), which won the C. Wright Mills Award from
the Society for the Study of Social Problems, examined the shift from
production to consumption, in a range of cities across the United
States. Her most recent book is Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed
American Culture (2004). Her current research includes: culture and
economy; shopping and spaces of consumption; urban development, art, and
real estate; and racial ghettos.
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