|
Ideas
that shape the city’s planning, housing, and development
|
|
Julia
Vitullo-Martin
Director
Julia
Vitullo-Martin is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and
Director of the Center for Rethinking Development. Her work focuses
on development issues such as planning and zoning, housing, rent
regulation, environmental reviews, building and fire codes, and
landmark preservation.
|
|
Hope
Cohen
Deputy
Director
Hope
Cohen is Deputy Director of the Center for Rethinking Development.
With over a decade of experience in New York City government at
the Department of Parks and Recreation and MTA New York City Transit,
she brings invaluable experience navigating the complex city bureaucracy
and an acute ability to solve complex problems by building consensus
among multiple stake-holders.
|
MORE
FEATURED TOPICS:
 |
 |
 |
| Debating
Development in New York: Selected Articles and Comments |
| Dear Riders: This is Going to Hurt, Politicker, 03-31-09 |
| State to Developers: Mind Climate Change!, The New York Observer, 03-03-09 |
| Supportive Housing Faces Down Routine Opposition, City Limits, 02-02-09 |
| City Limits Investigates: Public Housing's Struggle, City Limits, 01-26-09 |
| Cut through red tape to create jobs, Crain's, 01-17-09 |
| 'Historic' building versus religious rights, The Christian Science Monitor, 01-12-09 |
| To Avert Blight, City Will Repair and Resell Vacant Homes, New York Times, 01-14-09 |
| Columbia University, Slumlord, The Weekly Standard, 12-08-08 |
| Landmark Problems, Gotham Gazette, 12-01-08 |
| Can This Market Be Saved?, New York Magazine, 11-23-08 |
| Is Overdevelopment Still a Threat?, New York Times, 10-22-08 |
| Vanishing Projects, Gotham Gazette, 10-15-08 |
| Maybe Beloved Shops Don't Have to Disappear, City Limits, 07-21-08 |
| Hold 'em Accountable: Developer Filing Proposed, City Limits, 07-14-08 |
| Thompson says other developers might join AY; "I'm not sure what that project is any longer", Atlantic Yards Report, 05-02-08
|
| 125th Street Rezoning Raises Concerns About Preserving Harlem's Affordability, Columbia Spectator, 04-24-08
|
| Harlem reborn, The Economist, 03-13-08
|
| Battle for soul of Harlem's famed 125th Street, Guardian, 03-11-08
|
| World Service, BBC Radio, 01-30-08
|
|
Once Synagogues, Now Churches, and Ailing Quietly New York Times,
01-28-08 |
|
Columbia's $6 Billion Expansion Likely to Win Approval From NYC Bloomberg.com,
11-26-07 |
|
When the Gown Devours the Town New York Times,
11-16-07 |
|
Forest City Enterprises: Deals and Ideals Governing Magazine,
November 2007 |
|
Time for Some Jane Jacobs Revisionism? New York Times,
11-06-07 |
|
Not so Superblock Built Environment Blog, 10-19-07 |
|
Atlantic Yards Report: Vitullo-Martin Takes a Second Look at Jane
Jacobs New York Times, 10-15-07 |
|
Study Finds Disparities in Mortgages by Race New York Times,
10-15-07 |
| Razing West Harlem, Daily Standard, 08-09-07 |
|
The Politics of Public Housing The Brian Lehrer Show, 08-09-07 |
|
Hard Times in the Projects Gotham Gazette, 08-20-07 |
|
Environmental Reviews for Small Developments The New york Times,
08-19-07 |
|
The Future of New York's Past New York Times, 05-15-07 |
|
Brooklyn gets affordable housing boost AM New York, 04-25-07 |
The First Reductions of Street Homelessness in 20 Years Wall
Street Journal, 02-15-07
*subscription required |
| Blight
off the Block? New York Post, 12-04-06 |
Up
in arms about the Yards Economist, 09-21-06
|
New
York's Post-9/11 Liberty Bond Program Gets Mixed Grades Bloomberg
News, 09-11-06
|
More
articles >> |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Masterpiece: Chicago, City Without Limits, Wall Street Journal, 06-20-09
Lessons In Public Housing, Forbes.com, 05-06-09
Bronx Cheer, New York Post, 02-22-09
Gimme Shelter, New York Post, 02-22-09 (Review of Gimme Shelter by Mary Elizabeth Williams)
How a City Lost Its Soul, The Wall Street Journal, 02-01-09 (Review of Getting Ghost by Luke Bergmann)
Spray It Loud!, New York Post, 12-28-08 (Review of Graffiti Lives by Gregory J. Snyder)
Looking Ahead to the New Year, Gotham Gazette Symposium, 12-22-08
MTA asks for shared sacrifice—but squanders its assets, New York Daily News, 12-10-08
Big & Beautiful For Hell's Kitchen, New York Post, 12-03-08
|
|
MORE
ARTICLES>>
|
|
|
 |
|
NEW CRD REPORT:
The
Neighborly Substation: Electricity, Zoning, and Urban Design
By Hope Cohen, with a foreword by
Peter W. Huber
 New
York City needs power and it needs land. Electrical substations
have to be near the businesses and homes they power, but neighbors
don’t want ugly, scary substations near them. New York's
competitor cities London and Tokyo demonstrate that substations
don't have to be ugly and scary. Instead of covering acres
with electrical equipment, utilities there build substations
into or under office buildings and public spaces. The Neighborly
Substation explains how to update New York's antiquated
zoning code to unlock valuable land and build substations
where they need to be, in a manner neighbors will accept.
SLIDESHOW:
Hope
Cohen takes the viewer through a tour of substations across
the United States and around the world.
CRD NEWSLETER:
Power
to the People! by Hope Cohen, January 2009
OP-EDS
Putting
The Sub Back In Substations, Hope Cohen, Architect's
Newspaper, 02-18-09
Growing
NYC's Grid by Hope Cohen, New York Post, 01-24-09
IN THE PRESS
Changes
we can all believe in, Grist Magazine, 01-28-09
Why
Not Bury Ugly Power Substations?, The New York Times'
City Room Blog, 01-16-09
EVENT:
Infrastructure
We Can Live With: The Neighborly Substation Conference
|
|
|
CRD COMMENTARY :
Fix
the Drains (and Trains and Bridges)—and Train the Fixers
Hope Cohen, Center for Rethinking Development newsletter,
August 2007
Podcast:
Hope Cohen elaborates on the themes of the August 2007 newsletter
Ensuring
It Doesn't Happen Here by Hope Cohen, New York Post,
08-03-07
IN THE PRESS:
Was
AKRF's Work for Ratner a Hindrance to Hiring by ESDC? No,
It Was a Justification Atlantic Yards Report, 08-15-08
TESTIMONY:
"Time
to Return Tolls to East River Bridges," to New York City
Council
Testimony of Hope Cohen, December 16, 2008
On Safety of New York City's Bridges, to New York City Council
Transportation Committee
Testimony of Hope Cohen, September 17, 2007
|
|
|
 CRD
REPORT:
Rethinking
Environmental Review: A Handbook on What Can Be Done
By Hope Cohen, with a foreword by
Richard Ravitch
New York City's environmental review process was instituted
so that public officials would understand the full environmental
implications of a development project and could plan for any
necessary changes to municipal infrastructure and services.
Over time, the process has evolved to become a hindrance to
all developers, especially small-scale ones. The Center for
Rethinking Development offers simple and effective suggestions
for reform in a new report, "Rethinking Environmental
Review."
SELECT MEDIA:
One
to One, CUNY TV, 01-21-08
OP-ED:
Yes,
Mayor Bloomberg, streamline environmental review, by Hope
Cohen, New York Daily News Online, 02-13-09
Building
Blocks by Richard Ravitch and Hope Cohen, The New York
Times, 08-05-07
IN THE PRESS:
A
Start on Trading Cumbersome (City) Environmental Review for
the Civic Work of Planning Atlantic Yards Report,
05-18-07
|
|
|
|
The
Center
for Rethinking Development
(CRD) fosters a new understanding of the importance of development
to New York City's well-being. Focusing on such areas as zoning
and planning, environmental review, building codes, historic preservation,
and public housing, CRD conducts research, hosts forums, and offers
concrete, feasible proposals for reform.
The
city has adopted many of CRD's specific recommendations for zoning
changes. CRD's work on bottlenecks to building continues to frame
policy discussions in the development world—public, private,
and not-for-profit.
New
Yorkers have become far more development-friendly in the past few
years, but are rightly troubled about New York's decaying infrastructure—roads,
subways, bridges, tunnels—so necessary to support an expanding
city. The costs of housing—rehabilitation as well as new construction—worry
everyone concerned about keeping and attracting jobs and business.
CRD explains and makes a case for the importance of reconnecting
environmental reviews to infrastructural planning and implementation,
targeting incentives to neighborhoods that are still weak rather
than those that are strong, and tempering historic preservation
with economic reason. Addressing these common-sense concerns is
key to the city's future.
For
more information please contact Hope
Cohen
(hcohen@manhattan-institute.org), (212) 599-7000, fax (212) 599-3494.
|
Subscribe
to the Center for Rethinking Development
Monthly E-newsletter and Publications >>>
|
|
|
|
