THOMAS ANGOTTI

CURRENT WORK

Professor (2001 – Present)

Department of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College

City University of New York

695 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10065

Phone: 212-650-3130

Cell: 347-226-0100

Fax: 212-772-5593

tangotti@hunter.cuny.edu

Director, Hunter College Center for Community Planning & Development

Fellow, American Academy in Rome

Participating Editor, Latin American Perspectives, Local Environment

Co-Editor and Founder, Progressive Planning Magazine

Land Use Columnist and Sustainability Watch editor, www.gothamgazette.com

Contributing Editor, Urbana (Venezuela)

Fulbright Senior Specialist (2003-2009)

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Urban Planning & Policy Development (1973)

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Masters in City & Regional Planning (1971)

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

B.A., Arts & Sciences [Major: Psychology] (1964)

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Courses in Anthropology, Spanish (1964)

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Foreign Languages: Spanish (fluent), Italian, French

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fulbright Senior Specialist

(2009) National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

(2005) Hanoi, Vietnam, National Institute of Urban and Regional Planning

(2005) University of Catania, Italy

Americas Editor, Planning, Practice and Research (1996-2008)

Visiting Professor (January-May, 2002), Cornell University in Rome

Professor and Chair (1995-2001), Graduate Center for Planning & the Environment

Director, Consortium for Sustainable Community Development and Planning,

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

Associate City Planner (1988 ‑ 1994), Brooklyn Office, New York City Department of

City Planning

Adjunct Associate Professor (1988 ‑ 1994), City University of New York, Political

Science Department, Graduate Center for Worker Education, Brooklyn College

Director [Acting] (1986‑1988), Queens & Staten Island Planning Office of Development,

New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development

Urban Planning and Community Development Consultant (1983‑1986),

Berkeley, California

Visiting Lecturer (1982), Department of City & Regional Planning,

University of California, Berkeley

Assistant Professor (1977‑1981), Director, Planning Program in Developing Nations,

Division of Urban Planning, Graduate School of Architecture & Planning,

Columbia University, New York

Visiting Assistant Professor (1976‑1978), Department of Urban Affairs,

Hunter College, New York

Urban Planning and Community Development Consultant (1974‑1976), Rome, Italy

Research Associate (1975‑1976), Urbanisticni Institut SRS/Johns Hopkins

Environmental Project, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

Chief Planner (1972‑1974), Massachusetts Department of Community Affairs,

Boston, Massachusetts

Research Associate/Lecturer (1972), Department of City & Regional Planning,

Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge

Research Associate (1970‑1972), New Jersey County & Municipal Government Study

Commission: Trenton

Planning Consultant (1970), U.S. Peace Corps Urban Development Program:

Washington, DC and Dominican Republic

Teaching Assistant (1970‑1971), Dept. of Urban Planning & Policy Development,

Livingston College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Program Coordinator (1969), U.S./Peru Peace Corps Training Program:

Washington, DC and Toluca, Mexico

Community Organizer/Extension Agent (1967‑1969), Rutgers University,

New Brunswick, NJ

Cooperative Organizer/Community Development Specialist (1964‑1966),

U.S. Peace Corps, Peru

Other:

Taught individual courses at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, Boston University and

Queens College

Housing Analyst, various neighborhood groups in New York, New Jersey, and Boston

Microcomputer Analyst and Training Specialist

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate.

MIT Press, 2008.

Metropolis 2000: Planning, Poverty and Politics. Routledge, 1993.

Housing in Italy: Urban Development and Political Change. Praeger, 1977.

Articles and Studies:

“Urban Planning for Food Security: Reinventing City and Countryside with Jane Jacobs.” Plan Canada. Summer 2009, 55-57.

“Fifty Years of Rectification,” Latin American Perspectives. 36:1, 2009, 130-131.

“Environmental Justice Praxis: Lessons for the Theory And Practice of Interdisciplinary Urban Health” with Julie Sze. Interdisciplinary Urban Health Research and Practice, edited by Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, and Susan Saegert. Jossey-Bass, 2009.

Apartheid in Postcolonial Latin American Cities, Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Congress, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), June 2009.

“Lovely Plan, Lousy Process,” The New York 2030 Notebook. New York: Institute for Urban Design, 2008.

“Is New York’s Sustainability Plan Sustainable?” Sustainability Watch Working Paper, 2008.

New York’s Open Schoolyards Initiative: Will Artificial Turf Make it a Public Health Hazard? with Paige Cowett and Shira Siegel. Sustainability Watch Working Paper, 2008.

“Urban Agriculture, the Urban Fallacy, Food Security and Structural Change.” Paper presented at the Canadian Institute of Planners Conference, Winnipeg (Manitoba), July 13-16, 2008.

Preface, Luoghi Pubblici e Pianificazione Democratica da Caterina Timpanaro, Ed.It (Italy), 2007.

“Community Land Trusts and Low-Income Multifamily Rental Housing,” with Cecilia Jagu, Working Paper prepared for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, December 2006.

“Apocalyptic Anti-Urbanism: Mike Davis and his Planet of Slums,” Review essay, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 30:4 December, 2006. Also in Critica della Razionalità Urbana. 19, primo semestre 2006 (Italy) and forthcoming in Revista Bimestre Cubana (Cuba) and University of Sao Paulo Review.

“Cities in Latin America: More Inequality,” Latin American Perspectives 33:6, November, 2006, 165-174.

“Urban Renewal in Italy and the United States: A Retrospective,” in Rome and New York City: Comparative Urban Problems at the End of the 20^th Century. Ed. By Victor Goldsmith & Eugenio Sonnino. Università La Sapienza, 2005.

“Community Development and Planning in Globalizing Immigrant Communities:

Latinos in Corona (New York City),” with Lynn McCormick and Arturo Ignacio Sánchez. Unpublished, 2005.

“Ways to Participate: A Guide to New York City Civic Life,” with Jill Gross. Asian Americans for Equality, April 2003.

“Urbanization and Planning: Inequality and Unsustainability,” in Development Theory and Practice. Edited by Ronald H. Chilcote Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

“La Reconstrución de Nueva York Después del 11 de Septiembre ¿Para Quien? Revista Bimestre Cubana XCIV, No. 19 Julio-Diciembre, 2003. Presented to the Forum of the College of Architects of Catalunya, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, May 2002.

“The Roots of Community-based Planning in New York City,” with Ron Shiffman. The Livable City. Municipal Art Society, Fall 2002 (2).

“Problems and Prospects for Healthy Mixed Use Communities in New York City,” with Eva Hanhardt. Planning Practice & Research, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2001 (145-154).

“Espai públic a la ciutat de Nova York,” in L’espai públic: ciutat I ciutadania by Jordi Borja and Zaida Muxí. Diputació de Barcelona, 2001 (382-383).

“Ciudad Guayana: From Growth Pole to Metropolis, Central Planning to Participation,” Journal of Planning Education and, Research Vol. 20, No. 3, 2001 (329-338).

"New York City: Challenges Facing Neigborhoods in Distress," in Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods. Edited by Dennis Keating and Norman Krumholz, Sage Publications, 1999, 177-203.

“The Real Estate Market in the United States: Progressive Strategies.” Paper presented at the conference on Democracy and Participation in Porto Alegre, Brazil, December, 1999.

Editor and contributor, Lessons in Community-Based Planning: The Case of Red Hook (Brooklyn, New York) Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning & Environment, 1999.

“Race, Place and Waste: Community Planning in New York City,” New Village. Issue 1, 1999 (5-9).

“The Creation and Privatization of Public Places: Global or Local, New or Old,” Working Papers in Local Governance and Democracy, World Academy for Local Government and Democracy, Issue 2, 1999.

"The Political Economy of Oil, Autos and the Urban Environment in Venezuela," Review of Radical Political Economics Vol. 30, No. 4, December 1998 (98-115).

"A Metropolis of Enclaves: Image and Reality in Urban North America," in Città Reali e Immaginarie del Continente Americano. Edited by Cristina Giorcelli, Camilla Cattarulla, and Anna Scacchi. Rome, Edizioni Associate, 1998, (13-31). Also published in Urbana. Vol. 3, enero-junio 1998 (13-24)

"Ciudad Guayana: From Growth Pole to Metropolis," Paper presented at the conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, November, 1997.

"New York City's '197-a' Community Planning Experience: Power to the People or Less Work for Planners?" Planning Practice & Research Vol. 12, No. 1, 1997 (59-69).

Editor, Special Issue of Latin American Perspectives on Urbanization in Latin American (Fall 1996); also "Latin American Urbanization and Planning: Inequality and Unsustainability in North and South" in the Special Issue.

Contributor to the Symposium, "Cities of the Americas in the Information Age," Trans>. Vol. 1, Issue 2, 1996.

"The Metropolis Revisited," Futures. Vol. 27, No. 6, 1995 (627-639).

"Planificación, Pobreza y Desigualdad en la América Latina Urbana," Simposio Internacional de Estudios de Areas, Ciudad y Campo en América Latina, The Japan Center for Area Studies, Osaka, December 4-7, 1995.

"Oil, Auto and the Urban Environment in Venezuela" A paper presented to the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, September 28, 1995.

"A Plan for Community Regeneration: Red Hook, Brooklyn" MetroPlanner. September, 1995 (3-4).

"The Latin American Metropolis and the Growth of Inequality," NACLA. Vol. 28, No. 4, Jan/Feb, 1995 (13-18); reprinted as a chapter in Free Trade and Economic Restructuring in Latin America, Ed. by Fred Rosen & Deidre McFadyen. Monthly Review Press, 1995.

"Mixed Use: Zoning and More," The Livable City. 18/2, Fall 1994 (5).

"Clearing the Air: Air Pollution and Sustainable Metropolitan Planning in Latin America" A paper presented to the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, March 11, 1994.

"Globalization: City Changes and Planning Challenges" Regenerating Cities No. 5, July 1993 (3-8), with Michael Safier.

"Il sistema metropolitano degli stati uniti: disuguaglianza e mobilità," Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali. 44-45, 1992 (205-230).

"The Outer Boroughs are Auto Boroughs" Auto-Free Press. Vol. 3, No. 1, September/October, 1991 (3,7).

"Unequal Metropolitan Development and Equalization Policies," Trialog. Vol. 26, No. 3, 1990 (5‑12).

"The Housing Question: Progressive Agenda and Socialist Program," Science & Society. Vol. 54, No. 1, Spring 1990 (86‑97).

“The Cuban Revolution: A New Turn,” Nature, Society & Thought Vol. 1, No. 4, 1988 (527-549).

“The Stalin Period: Opening Up History,” Science & Society Vol. 52, No. 1, Spring 1988 (5-34).

"Urbanization in Latin America: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis," Latin American Perspectives. Issue 53, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring 1987 (134‑156).

"Ideology, Decentralization and the Path toward Local Government in Peru," Urban Policy Paper No. 10, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, December 1987.

"Housing Strategies: The Limits of Local Actions," Journal of Housing. Vol. 43, No. 5, September/October 1986 (197‑206).

"The Contributions of José Carlos Mariátegui to Revolutionary Theory," Latin American Perspectives. Issue 49, Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring 1986 (33‑57).

"Reproducing Inequity: Housing Policy in the 1980s and the Case of Oakland (California)," Unpublished, 1986.

"New Directions in Cuban Housing," New World Review. Vol. 51, No. 1, January/February 1983 (12‑16).

"Planning the Open‑Air Museum and Teaching Urban History: The United States in the World Context," Museum. Vol. 34, No. 3, 1982 (179‑188).

"Planning and Development in China," Paper delivered at the Third World Conference, SUNY/Old Westbury, March 1982.

"The Political Critique of Dependency Theory," Latin American Perspectives. Vol. 8, No. 3/4, Summer & Fall 1981 (124‑137).

"The Strategic Questions for the Housing Movement: Racism and Displacement," paper presented to conference on New Perspectives on Urban Political Economy, American University, May 1981, 42 pp.

"Italian Urban Policy: The Historic Compromise," Columbia University Papers in Planning No. 11, March 1980, 23 pp.

"The Flight to the Suburbs and Back: Who Benefits and Why," in Reinvestment and Housing Equality in Michigan. Consultation, Michigan Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1980.

"A Critical Assessment of Current Approaches to Housing Finance," The Black Scholar. Vol. 11, No. 2, November/December 1979 (2‑12).

"Planning and the Class Struggle? Radical Planning Theory in the Post‑Banfield Era," in Harvey A. Goldstein & Sara A. Rosenberry (Eds.), The Structural Crisis of the 1970s and Beyond: The Need for a New Planning Theory. VPI&SU, 1978 (209‑215).

"Housing Abandonment in New York City." Homefront, 1977 (contributor).

"Yugoslavia: Regional Planning under Local Self‑ Management," Town and Country Planning. Vol. 45, No. 3, March 1977 (171‑2).

"Playing Politics with Disaster: The Earthquakes of Friuli and Belice (Italy)," International Journal of Urban & Regional Research. Vol. 1, No. 2, 1977 (327‑331).

"The Housing Question: Engels and After," Monthly Review. Vol. 29, No. 5, October 1977 (30‑51).

"Bologna Italy: Urban Socialism in Western Europe," Social Policy. Vol. 7, No. 1, May/June 1976 (4‑11) (with Bruce Dale).

"Planning and Management of Water Resources in the Ljubljana Region of Yugoslavia," Environmental Conservation. Vol. 3, No. 3, Winter 1976 (189‑196).

"Planning for Regional Waste Water Systems," Growth and Change. Vol. 6, No. 2, April 1975 (36‑42).

"The Planning of Regional Waste Water Systems: Their Relation to Land Use and Social Structure." Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, 1974.

Other: Over 500 newspaper articles and features.

RECENT REPORTS, CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT

Sunset Park Rezoning

East Village/Lower East Side Environmental Impact Analysis

The UNITY Plan for the Vanderbilt Yards

Stable Brooklyn Community Plan

Willets Point Land Use Study

Atlantic Yards Environmental Review Scoping Process

Atlantic Yards Environmental Impact Analysis

BOOK REVIEWS

Olilver D. Cooke Rethinking Municipal Privatization. Forthcoming in Review of Radical Political

Economy.

Marion Orr, Ed. Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political

Change. Forthcoming in Planning Theory.

Michael A. Lebowitz, Build It Now: Socialism for the Twenty-first Century, and Eva Golinger,

The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela. Forthcoming in Review of Radical Political Economy.

Neuwirth, Robert Shadow Cities; Mitlin, Diana and David Satterthwaite Empowering Squatter

Citizen: Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction. Reviewed in Journal of the American Planning Association 71, 4 Autumn 2005 (465-466).

Keating, W. Dennis, Norman Krumholz, and Philip Star Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods.

Reviewed in Journal of Planning Education and Research 17, 1 Fall 1997 (89-91).

Bressi, Todd, Editor Planning and Zoning New York City: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Reviewed in Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 15,2 Summer 1998 (170-172).

Yaro, Robert D. and Tony Hiss A Region at Risk: The Third Regional Plan for the New York - New Jersey- Connecticut Metropolitan Area. Reviewed in Planning Practice & Research 12,4 November, 1997 (411-412).

Carr, Barry & Steve Ellner (eds.), The Latin American Left; Jorge Castañeda, Utopia Unarmed; Shafik Jofte Handal & Carlos M. Vilas, The Socialist Option in Central America; Richard L. Harris, Marxism, Socialism and Democracy in Latin America; Donald C. Hodges, Sandino’s Communism; Sheldon B. Liss, Radical Thought in Central America; Michael Lowy (ed.), Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the Present; William I. Robinson, The Sao Paulo Forum; Carlos M. Vilas, Between Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Reviewed in Latin American Perspectives. Issue 92, Vol. 24, No. 1, January 1977 (130-138).

Leñero, Vicente, et. al. Apuntes para la Historia de la Vivienda Obrera en México; Gilbert, Alan & Peter M. Ward Housing, the State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities; Vergara Davila, Francisco & Trias Palmer El Lote 9 x 18 en la Encrucijada Habitacional de Hoy; Violich, Francis Urban Planning for Latin America. Reviewed in Design Book Review. Issue 32/33, Spring/Summer 1994 (99-105).

Friedman, J. & D.H. Weinberg, Eds. The Great Housing Experiment. Reviewed in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Vol. 8, No. 2, 1984 (292-293).

Hartman, C., Keating, D. & LeGates, R. Displacement: How to Fight It. Reviewed in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Vol. 7, No. 2, 1983 (288-290).

OP-ED ARTICLES

1997-Present: “Seventh Generation” column in Planners Network and Progressive

Planning Magazine.

“Viewpoint” Planning. March 2000.

"Fortunately, Superstore Zoning Goes Down--But Planning Loses" MetroPlanner. Feb.,

1997.

"Megastores Mean Lost New York Jobs" New York Times. April 18, 1995, with Ron

Shiffman.

"Planning After Los Angeles: Why the Silence?" Planners Network. January 21, 1993.

"Neglect is Reagan's Urban Policy" Newsday. December 3, 1985.

"Whatever Happened to National Urban Policy?" Shelterforce. December, 1985.

"Why Latin Democracies are Making a Comeback" The Miami Herald. December 8,

1984.

"A Test for Democracy in Peru" St. Louis Post-Dispatch. March 20, 1985.

HONORS

Paul Davidoff Book Award for New York for Sale

The Mesa Refuge

Advanced Fellowship in the Design Arts

National Endowment for the Arts/American Academy in Rome 1989-1990 ("The Rome Prize")

Community Board 6 (Brooklyn, New York), Core of the Apple Award, 1994

Who's Who in the East

Who's Who in Environmental and Energy Management

International Who's Who

National Directory of Latin Americanists, The Library of Congress

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

Current:

New York City Task Force on Community-based Planning (1999 – present)

Cooper Square Community Land Trust Board Member (2007- present)

Planners Network, Steering Committee (1994 – present), Founding member (1975)

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (1994 – present)

Latin American Studies Association (1985 – present)

Past:

Hunter College, Select Committee on Academic Freedom (2005-2006)

Convenor, Planners Network Conference, Hunter College (2004)

American Institute of Certified Planners, Multi-Media Task Force (2000 – 2003)

New York City Organization of Waterfront Neighborhoods (1998 – 2004)

Pratt Institute Buildings & Grounds Committee (1997-1998)

Convenor, Planners Network Conference, Pratt Institute (1996)

Board of Directors, Carroll Gardens Association (1995 – 2001)

Board of Directors, Transportation Alternatives (1995 – 1999)

Pratt Institute Academic Senate (1995-1997)

Convenor, Planners Network National Conference, Pratt Institute (1995)

President and Secretary/Treasurer, 808 8^th Avenue Tenants Association (1995 – 1999)

Planners Network/New York Forums (1994 – 2001)

Italian Americans for a Multicultural United States, founding member (1992)

Steering Committee, Bay Area Chapter, Architects Designers and Planners for Social

Responsibility (1983 – 1986)

Coordinator, Eastern Region, Organization of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (1966

– 1969)

Senator, Rutgers University Senate (1969 – 1970)

President, Rutgers University Married Student Housing Tenants Association (1969 –

1971)

Convenor, Conference on Community Involvement, Rutgers University (1970)