Tom Angotti


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Nov 4 2009


Tom Angotti is Professor in the Hunter College Department of Urban Affairs & Planning in New York City. From 1995 to 2001 he was Professor and Chair of the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate (MIT Press, 2008), Metropolis 2000: Planning, Poverty and Politics (Routledge,1993), Housing in Italy (Praeger,1977), and many articles in professional journals. He has worked and written extensively on urban planning and community development in the United States, Latin America and Europe. He is a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, co-editor of Progressive Planning Magazine, and participating editor for Latin American Perspectives and Local Environment. He was previously a city planner with the NYC Department of City Planning, and worked for state government in New Jersey and Massachusetts. He taught at the graduate level at SUNY, Columbia University, Harvard, and University of California at Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy Development from Rutgers University.


Recent Work

Selected recent publications may be viewed by clicking on the title.

Community Land Trusts and Low-Income Multifamily Rental Housing: The Case of Cooper Square, New York City Prepared for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2006.
Cities in Latin America: More Inequality Latin American Perspectives, 2006.
Ciudad Guayana: From Growth Pole to Metropolis, Central Planning to Participation .
King George III .
A Disabled Tractor Trailer on the BQE Planning Poetry, 7/19/02.
Metropolis 2000, Chapter One (revised and updated)
City Planning and Environmental Justice in New York City: Waste, Race and Place November, 2001.
Big Boxes Create Exclusive Enclaves in Downtown Brooklyn November, 2001.
Planning to Rebuild New York Planners Network, Fall 2001.
Neighborhoods Can't Plan? They Did it in Seattle August, 2001.
Ciudad Guayana: From Growth Pole to Metropolis Journal of Planning Education & Research, 2001.
Giuliani & LaGuardia: Pickles & Pasta .
The Metropolis of Enclaves: Image and Reality in Urban North America .
The Traffic in Our Future www.gothamgazette.com .
Race Place and Waste: Community Planning in New York City New Village 1999.


Publications List

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WWW Links of Interest

Hunter College home page

Planners Network home page

Gotham Gazette Land Use page (see archives for back issues)

Community Planning and Development home page