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Ideas
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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.
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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.
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| 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
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| 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 |
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Once Synagogues, Now Churches, and Ailing Quietly New
York Times, 01-28-08 |
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Columbia's $6 Billion Expansion Likely to Win Approval From
NYC Bloomberg.com, 11-26-07 |
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When the Gown Devours the Town New York Times, 11-16-07 |
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Forest City Enterprises: Deals and Ideals Governing Magazine,
November 2007 |
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Time for Some Jane Jacobs Revisionism? New York Times,
11-06-07 |
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Not so Superblock Built Environment Blog, 10-19-07 |
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Atlantic Yards Report: Vitullo-Martin Takes a Second Look at
Jane Jacobs New York Times, 10-15-07 |
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Study Finds Disparities in Mortgages by Race New York
Times, 10-15-07 |
| Razing
West Harlem, Daily Standard, 08-09-07 |
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The Politics of Public Housing The Brian Lehrer Show,
08-09-07 |
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Hard Times in the Projects Gotham Gazette, 08-20-07 |
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Environmental Reviews for Small Developments The New
york Times, 08-19-07 |
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The Future of New York's Past New York Times, 05-15-07 |
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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
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| Blight
off the Block? New York Post, 12-04-06 |
Up
in arms about the Yards Economist, 09-21-06
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New
York's Post-9/11 Liberty Bond Program Gets Mixed Grades
Bloomberg News, 09-11-06
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Masterpiece:
Chicago, City Without Limits, Wall Street Journal,
06-20-09
Sidewalk,
New York Post, 05-24-09
Public-Housing
Hope, New York Post, 05-18-09
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
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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
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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
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 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
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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.
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