| ROHIT T. AGGARWALA C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group |
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Rohit T. Aggarwala is Special Advisor to Chairman Michael R. Bloomberg of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, and leads the environmental program at Bloomberg Philanthropies. From 2006 to 2010, he was Director of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability for the City of New York, where he led the development and implementation of PlaNYC. Prior to 2006, Aggarwala was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, focused on transportation. He holds a PhD (US History), MBA, and BA from Columbia University, and an MA in history from Queen's University (Ontario). He is a member of the board of the Regional Plan Association and a lecturer in urban studies at Stanford University. He and his wife live in Palo Alto, California.
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| HILARY BALLON Deputy Vice Chancellor, NYU Abu Dhabi; University Professor of Urban Studies and Architecture, NYU |
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An architectural and urban historian, Hilary Ballon has written several influential books about urbanism in the United States and Europe. Most recently she edited The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 to be published in conjunction with an exhibition she curated of the same title that is opening at the Museum of the City of New York in December. She also curated Robert Moses and the Modern City, the 2007 exhibition that re-evaluated the transformation of New York in the mid-20th century and was a principal author of the accompanying book. As Deputy Vice Chancellor of NYU Abu Dhabi, she has been at the forefront of the globalization of higher education.
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| RICK BELL, FAIA Executive Director, American Institute of Architects New York |
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Rick Bell is Executive Director of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, where he was instrumental in the creation of the Center for Architecture on LaGuardia Place. At the AIA he has led efforts to foster greater engagement of the design community with municipal agencies on a wide variety of issues, ranging from affordable housing and waterfront use to accessibility and active design.
Previously he served as Assistant Commissioner of Architecture and Engineering at the NYC Department of Design and Construction. He holds degrees from Yale and Columbia and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
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| MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG Mayor, New York City |
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Michael R. Bloomberg is the 108th Mayor of the City of New York.
He began his career in 1966 at Salomon Brothers, and later began Bloomberg LP, a global media company. A leader in philanthropy, he has sat on the boards of numerous charitable institutions, including Johns Hopkins University, where he helped build the Bloomberg School of Public Health into one of the world's leading institutions of public health research and training. In 2001 he was elected mayor in a major upset. In office, Mayor Bloomberg has cut crime more than 35 percent and created jobs by attracting new investment and supporting small business growth. As part of a long-range vision for a sustainable, competitive city, the Bloomberg Administration has overseen the rezoning of a third of the city, and developed comprehensive plans and strategic infrastructure investments that will accommodate population growth near transit and preserve neighborhood character. These strategies foster new jobs, multiple housing options, including affordable housing, and quality of life as a foundation for economic growth. The Mayor has implemented ambitious public health strategies, including the ban on smoking, and promoting access to fresh food in underserved neighborhoods, and expanded support for arts and cultural organizations. His education reforms have driven graduation rates up 40 percent since 2005. The City has weathered the national recession much better than most other places, gaining back nearly all of the jobs lost in the recession. Michael Bloomberg attended Johns Hopkins University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. |
| AMANDA M. BURDEN, FAICP Director, New York City Department of City Planning; Chair, New York City Planning Commission |
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Amanda M. Burden, FAICP, an urban planner and civic activist, is Director of the New York City Department of City Planning and Chair of the New York City Planning Commission. Since her appointment in 2002, she has spearheaded Mayor Bloomberg's economic development initiatives with comprehensive urban design master plans designed to catalyze commercial and residential development throughout the city and to reclaim its waterfront.
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| MATTHEW CARMONA MRTPI, FRSA Professor of Planning & Urban Design, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London |
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Matthew Carmona is Professor of Planning & Urban Design at UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning. His research has focused on processes of design governance and on the design and management of public space. Carmona was educated at the University of Nottingham and is a chartered architect and planner. He has published widely in the areas of urban design, design policy and guidance, housing design and development, measuring quality and performance in planning, the management of public space, and on design and planning processes in London. From 2003-2011 he was Head of the Bartlett School of Planning, and is now faculty lead for urban design across the Bartlett.
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| VISHAAN CHAKRABARTI, AIA Holliday Professor and Director, Center for Urban Real Estate, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Columbia University |
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Vishaan Chakrabarti is the Holliday Professor of Real Estate and the Director of the Center for Urban Real Estate and directs the Master of Science in Real Estate Development program at Columbia University. Chakrabarti is also a senior consultant to the Related Companies, where he advises on the design and planning operations for the firm's development portfolio, including the Moynihan Station and Hudson Rail Yards projects. Chakrabarti holds a Master of Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and dual Bachelors degrees in Art History and Engineering from Cornell University. Chakrabarti serves on the Board of Directors of the Architectural League of New York, is a trustee of the Citizens Budget Commission, and is an emeritus board member of Friends of the High Line. He is also a member of the Young Leaders Forum of the National Council on US-China Relations.
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| DANIEL L. DOCTOROFF President and CEO of Bloomberg LP |
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Daniel L. Doctoroff is Chief Executive Officer and President of Bloomberg L.P., the leading provider of financial information. Mr. Doctoroff joined Bloomberg L.P. in January 2008 as President of the Company and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in August 2011. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Doctoroff was Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding for the City of New York. With Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Doctoroff led one of the city’s most dramatic economic resurgences, spearheading the effort to reverse New York’s fiscal crisis after the attacks of 9/11 through a five-borough economic development strategy. This plan included the most ambitious land-use transformation in the city’s modern history; the largest affordable housing program ever launched by an American city; the formation of new Central Business Districts and Industrial Business Zones; and the creation of new destinations like the Harbor District, which will link together new parkland and miles of waterfront esplanades in Lower Manhattan, Governors Island, and Brooklyn. All told, Doctoroff helped lead New York to its strongest economic position in decades. Doctoroff also led the creation of PlaNYC, a 127-point plan designed to create the first environmentally sustainable 21st century city. The plan focuses on every facet of New York’s physical environment – its transportation network, housing stock, land and park system, energy network, water supply and air quality – and sets the course for a 30% reduction in global warming emissions by 2030.
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| ALEX GARVIN Professor of Urban Planning and Management (Adjunct), Yale University; President and CEO, AGA Public Realm Strategists |
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Alexander Garvin has combined a career in urban planning and real estate with teaching, architecture, and public service. He is currently President and CEO of AGA Public Realm Strategists, Inc., a planning and design firm in New York City. From 1996 to 2005, he was Managing Director of Planning for NYC2012, New York City's committee for the 2012 Olympic bid. During 2002-2003, he was the Vice President for Planning, Design and Development at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the agency charged with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center following 9/11. Over the last 41 years he has held prominent positions in five New York City administrations, including Deputy Commissioner of Housing (1974-1978) and City Planning Commissioner (1995-2004).
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| PAUL GOLDBERGER Architecture Critic, The New Yorker; Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture, The New School |
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Paul Goldberger is the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where since 1997 he has written the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City. He was formerly Dean of the Parsons School of Design, a division of The New School. He began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, the highest award in journalism.
He is the author of several books, most recently Why Architecture Matters, published in 2009 by Yale University Press; Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, a collection of his architecture essays published in 2009 by Monacelli Press, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude, published in 2010 by Taschen. In 2008 Monacelli published Beyond the Dunes: A Portrait of the Hamptons, which he produced in association with the photographer Jake Rajs. Paul Goldberger’s chronicle of the process of rebuilding Ground Zero, entitled UP FROM ZERO: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York, which was published by Random House in the fall of 2004, and brought out in a new, updated paperback edition in 2005, was named one of The New York Times Notable Books for 2004. Paul Goldberger has also written The City Observed: New York, The Skyscraper, On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Post-Modern Age, Above New York, and The World Trade Center Remembered. |
| TONI L. GRIFFIN Professor & Director of the J. Max Bond Center at the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, CUNY |
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Toni L. Griffin was recently named Professor and Director of the J. Max Bond Center for Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York, CUNY and maintains an active private practice, Urban Planning and Design for the American City, whose clients include the cities of Newark, NJ and Detroit, MI. Prior to her new role, Toni was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the Director of Planning and Community Development for the City of Newark, New Jersey. She has also served in senior leadership positions at the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, DC Office of Planning, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Ms. Griffin received a Bachelor's of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame and a Loeb Fellowship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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| ROSANNE HAGGERTY President, Community Solutions (CS) |
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Rosanne Haggerty is the President of Community Solutions (CS), a national not-for-profit organization that grows the capacity of communities to prevent and end homelessness.
The organization is a spinoff of New York-based Common Ground, which Haggerty founded in 1990 and built into a leader in the development of supportive housing and other research based practices that end homelessness. Its network of well designed, affordable apartments — linked to supportive services people need to maintain their housing, restore their health, and regain their economic independence — has enabled more than 4,000 individuals to overcome homelessness. The organization is also credited with ending chronic homelessness in Times Square. CS brings tested innovations in reducing homelessness to a national scale and advances new models of homelessness prevention and community development. The 100,000 Homes Campaign (www.100khomes.org) is a cornerstone initiative that coordinates the efforts of national organizations and local communities to collectively house 100,000 homeless individuals and families by July of 2013. Haggerty is a 2001 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, an Ashoka Senior Fellow, and a Hunt Alternatives Fund Prime Mover. |
| JEROLD S. KAYDEN Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Director, Master in Urban Planning Degree Program, Harvard University Graduate School of Design |
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Jerold S. Kayden, an urban planner and lawyer, is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design and the Director of the Master in Urban Planning Degree Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His research and teaching center on law and the built environment and on public-private urban development. His books include Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience, Landmark Justice: The Influence of William J. Brennan on America's Communities, and Zoning and the American Dream: Promises Still To Keep. He has written about constitutional law and property rights, smart growth, historic preservation, and market-based regulatory instruments, among other subjects. Since 1991, he has been principal constitutional counsel to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 2002, he founded Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space, a non-profit organization based in New York City whose mission is to improve zoning-created plazas and indoor spaces. He earned his undergraduate, law, and city and regional planning degrees from Harvard, and served as law clerk to Judge James L. Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. |
| ERROL LOUIS Host, "Inside City Hall," NY1 |
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Errol Louis joined NY1 as the host of "Inside City Hall" in November 2010. Prior to joining NY1, Louis was a Daily News columnist who wrote pieces on a range of political and social affairs and also served on the paper’s editorial board. As a leading commentator, he hosted "The Morning Show," one of the city’s liveliest political talk shows for New York’s political, cultural and business leaders, every weekday on AM1600 WWRL.
In addition to his newspaper and radio work, Louis appeared on NY1 throughout the 2009 New York City election season and is a frequent guest on other local television and radio programs. He has been a CNN contributor since 2008, when he provided expert commentary at key points throughout the presidential campaign, including the Iowa Caucuses, South Carolina primaries, Election Night and the Inauguration. |
| THOM MAYNE Founder, Morphosis |
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Thom Mayne founded Morphosis as an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and research in 1972. Mr. Mayne is also co-founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture and Distinguished Professor at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2010, appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 2009, and honored with the American Institute of Architects / Los Angeles Gold Medal in 2000. With Morphosis, Mayne has been the recipient of the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize, 26 Progressive Architecture Awards and over 100 American Institute of Architecture Awards. Morphosis works have been published extensively. The firm has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and 25 monographs.
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| JACK S. NYMAN Director, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Baruch College, CUNY |
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Jack S. Nyman is director of the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Baruch College, the City University of New York. He has been instrumental in the accelerated growth and esteemed reputation of the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute that has helped place the Institute in the national arena of real estate education and research. His expertise lies in the areas of real estate development, investment finance, energy management and sustainability.
Mr. Nyman holds a Master of Architecture degree from Arizona State University and an advanced Master in Design Studies, with a concentration in real estate development, from Harvard University. He has lectured on various aspects of real estate development such as affordable housing, comprehensive smart city growth and energy management. He leads Institute operations, strategic planning, partnering, and industry liaison. Under his tenure the Institute has steadily gained recognition for leadership in promoting critical dialogue on industry concerns within a broad public policy context for New York City, the metro region, nationally and internationally. He is an Associate of the American Institute of Architects, a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design and has most recently served as Co-Chair of the board of the U.S. Green Building Council, New York and serves on the boards of the CUNY Institute for Urban Systems and the Sustainability Practice Network.
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| PETER J. PARK, AICP Loeb Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Design |
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Peter J. Park is a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the 2011 Lincoln Loeb Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He served as planning director of two large U.S. cities over the last 16 years. In Milwaukee and Denver, his integrated approach to comprehensive planning, urban design, and development review resulted in clear visions for sustainable urban development, places of high quality design, and streamlined development permitting systems. He oversaw the removal of an elevated downtown freeway, preparation of numerous neighborhood, corridor, and transit station area plans, and the comprehensive re-write and re-mapping of outdated zoning codes in both cities.
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| JOHN RAHAIM Director of Planning, City and County of San Francisco |
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John Rahaim was appointed Planning Director for the City and County of San Francisco at the beginning of 2008. In that role he is responsible for overseeing long range planning, development entitlements and environmental reviews for all physical development in the City.
Prior to his appointment in San Francisco, Mr. Rahaim was Planning Director for the City of Seattle, a position he held since August of 2003. In 1999, Mr. Rahaim was the Founding Executive Director of CityDesign, Seattle's office of Urban Design; and the Executive Director of the Seattle Design Commission, the City's primary design advisory panel for public projects and related urban design initiatives. Prior to his tenure in Seattle, Mr. Rahaim was with the City of Pittsburgh Department of City Planning, where he served as Associate Director in charge of development review and the rewrite of the City's Zoning Ordinance. Mr. Rahaim received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Rahaim's career path in planning and urban design has been a reaction to that circumstance. In addition to ongoing development review and environmental reviews for physical development, Mr. Rahaim is overseeing a number of planning initiatives well underway with the City of San Francisco. These include a series of comprehensive neighborhood plans, a city-wide historic resource survey and updates to the City's General Plan.
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| JONATHAN F.P. ROSE President, Jonathan Rose Companies |
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Jonathan F.P. Rose's business, public policy and not-for-profit work all focus oncreating a more environmentally, socially and economically responsible cities. In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate
development, planning, consulting and investment firm, as a leading green urban
solutions provider. The firm currently manages over $1.5 billion of work, in close
collaboration with not-for-profits, towns and cities. The firm's work touches on many aspects of community health; working with cities and not-for-profits to build not only housing, but also civic, cultural, educational, infrastructure, and open space. Mr. Rose is a Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (where he co-chairs its Climate and Energy Committee); the Natural Resources Defense Council; and vice chair of Enterprise Community Partners. He serves on the leadership councils of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Architecture, and chairs the Trust for Public Land's National Real Estate Council. He also chaired the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Blue Ribbon Sustainability Commission, which developed the nation's first green transit plan. |
| KAIROS SHEN Chief Planner, Boston Redevelopment Authority |
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Kairos Shen is the Director of Planning at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, Boston's economic development and planning agency. He has served in this capacity since 2002 where he manages the BRA's planning division of which the basic functions are community planning, urban design, zoning, waterfront planning and infrastructure planning. In 2008 Mr. Shen was appointed by the Mayor to be the new Chief Planner for the City of Boston with the role of formulating a comprehensive long-term vision to guide the city's economic and physical development, and coordinating planning across departments. Mr. Shen has been intimately involved in many of Boston's most important planning efforts in the last ten years. They include the guidelines for the Rose Kennedy Greenway, the rezoning of the Fenway neighborhood and the 10-year refurbishment of Fenway Park, the planning of the 1000-acre South Boston Waterfront Innovation District and the implementation of Boston's $700 million convention center and ICA. In addition to undertaking and supervising many of the planning and design studies, Mr. Shen regularly participates in community meetings, which are essential to the success of any planning effort. Mr. Shen is a graduate of Swarthmore College and has a Master of Architecture from MIT.
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| The Honorable Robert K. Steel Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, New York City |
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Robert K. Steel is Deputy Mayor for Economic Development. He is responsible for the Bloomberg Administration's five-borough economic development strategy and job-creation efforts, as well as its efforts to expand job training, strengthen small business assistance, promote new industries, diversify the economy, and achieve the goals of the New Housing Marketplace Plan, which is designed to build or preserve enough affordable housing for 500,000 New Yorkers by 2014. He spearheads the Administration's major redevelopment projects, including those in Lower Manhattan, Flushing, Hunters Point South, Coney Island, Stapleton, the South Bronx, and Hudson Yards. Deputy Mayor Steel oversees such agencies as the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Department of City Planning, Department of Small Business Services, NYC Economic Development Corporation and NYC & Company, and he serves as Chair of Brooklyn Bridge Park board.
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| ROBERT A.M. STERN Dean, Yale School of Architecture; Founder and Senior Partner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP |
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Robert A.M. Stern, practicing architect, teacher and writer, is co-author of the acclaimed five-volume series New York 1880, 1900, 1930, 1960, and 2000, which documents the development of the city's architecture and urbanism from the end of the Civil War to the millennium. He led the development of the master plan and design guidelines for the theater block of New York's 42nd Street, helping to create a widely studied model for urban redevelopment. He has been honored with the Driehaus Prize (2011), the National Building Museum's Vincent Scully Prize (2008), and the Congress for the New Urbanism's Athena Award (2007).
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| MARY ANN TIGHE Chief Executive Officer, New York Tri-State Region, CB Richard Ellis; Chair, Real Estate Board of New York |
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During her 26 years in the real estate industry, Mary Ann Tighe has been at the forefront of the transformation of New York's skyline. She has been responsible for over 77 million sq. ft. of commercial transactions, and her deals have anchored more than 9.2 million sq. ft. of new construction. Most recently, Mary Ann represented Condé Nast in its 25-year, one-million-sq.-ft. lease at One World Trade Center. Mary Ann is a six-time winner of the Real Estate Board of New York's Deal of the Year awards, and a recipient of its Louis Smadbeck Memorial Broker Recognition Award and Bernard H. Mendik Lifetime Achievement Award. Mary Ann was also honored by the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate with its Urban Leadership Award. In January 2010, Mary Ann was named Chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York, the first woman to hold this position in REBNY's 114-year history and the first real estate broker in 30 years. |
| HARRIET TREGONING Director, Office of Planning, Government of the District of Columbia |
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Harriet Tregoning is the Director of the Washington DC Office of Planning, where she works to make DC a walkable, bikeable, eminently livable, globally competitive and sustainable city. Prior to this she was the director of the Governors' Institute on Community Design and co-founder, with former Maryland Governor Glendening, and executive director of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute. Tregoning developed her expertise in state level action in the State of Maryland where she served Governor Glendening as both Secretary of Planning and then as the nation's first state-level Cabinet Secretary for Smart Growth. Prior to her tenure in Maryland state government, Tregoning was the director of Development, Community and Environment at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Tregoning's academic training is in engineering and public policy. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for 2003-2004. |
| CAROL WILLIS Founder, Director, Curator, The Skyscraper Museum, New York; Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Studies, Columbia University |
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Carol Willis is the founder, director, and curator of The Skyscraper Museum. An architectural and urban historian, she has researched, taught, and written about the history of American city building. She is the author of Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago (Princeton Architectural Press, 1995), which received an AIA book award and was named "Best Book on North American Urbanism, 1995" by the Urban History Association. Critic Herbert Muschamp has praised Ms. Willis in The New York Times as "the brilliant and energetic woman who created the Skyscraper Museum in 1996 from nothing but her imagination, her passion for New York architecture, and her belief in the importance of history and the value of the public realm."
Ms. Willis is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Columbia University where since 1989 she has taught in the program The Shape of Two Cities: New York and Paris in The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. From 1979 to 1991 she taught courses on the history of architecture at Parsons School of Design in New York and for eleven summers conducted walking tours on the history of French architecture for Parsons in Paris. |