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New York University
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Urban Planning Program
Mitchell L. Moss, Director of the Urban Planning Program at NYU's Wagner
School, is directing a study on "The Future of New York" that is supported
by the Charles Revson Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, and American
Express Foundation. Professor Moss serves on the Economic Revitalization
Roundtable of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Georges
Jacquemart, principal
at
Buckhurst Fish & Jacquemart Inc.,
has joined the NYU Wagner Urban Planning faculty as Adjunct Professor of
Planning and is teaching Transportation Planning.
Craig Whitaker, Adjunct Professor of Planning at NYU's Wagner School,
supervised a group of 11 NYU urban planning students that led to a new
report on planning for lower Manhattan entitled “Next Steps, Hard
Choices: A Proposal for Lower Manhattan,” it is available at
http://urban.nyu.edu/research/nextsteps/index.html
Professor of Planning and Public
Administration Rae Zimmerman has research underway on public services
before, during and after September 11th entitled “Urban Infrastructure
Services in a Time of Crisis" funded by the National Science Foundation. Her
work will be presented this fall at annual conferences of the Association
for Collegiate Schools of Planning, the American Society of Civil Engineers,
the Society for Risk Analysis, and at MIT's symposium on Counterterrorism
and Technology.
Ingrid Gould Ellen, Assistant Professor of
Public Policy and Urban Planning, has been invited to present
"Measuring the Impacts of Subsidized Housing on
Neighborhood Property at a special National Bureau of Economic
Research conference in December on the economic analysis of government
expenditure programs. Co-authored by Wagner Professor Amy Schwartz, they
have received funding from the Fannie Mae Foundation and the Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy
Hugh O’Neill, Adjunct Professor
of Planning and founder of Appleseed, an economic development consulting
firm based in New York City, has been retained by the Lower Manhattan
Development Corporation to assist the Corporation’s staff and its board of
directors in evaluating alternative proposals for investment of public
resources in the revitalization of downtown New York.
LMDC, a joint agency of New York City and New York State, is formulating an
overall plan for rebuilding the area, which was devastated by the September
11 terrorist attacks. Its resources include a special Congressional
appropriation of $2.7 billion in Community Development Block Grant funds,
and a special allocation of $8 billion in tax-exempt bonding authority,
which can be used for both residential and commercial development.
Under the terms of its two-year contract, Appleseed will help LMDC define an
overall strategic framework for investment of federal funds in the recovery
effort, and will help LMDC staff evaluate both the financial feasibility and
the long-term economic benefits of specific projects and programs. Projects
in which LMDC invests might include transportation improvements, commercial
real estate development, housing, cultural facilities, public amenities and
assistance to small businesses.
