Towards Comprehensive Planning

Speakers

Tom Angotti, Professor Emeritus, Urban Policy & Planning, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Tom Angotti is Professor Emeritus of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He was the founder and director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development. His recent books include Transformative Planning: Radical Alternatives to Neoliberal Urbanism, Zoned Out! Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York City, Urban Latin America: Inequalities and Neoliberal Reforms, The New Century of the Metropolis, New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, which won the Davidoff Book Award, and Accidental Warriors and Battlefield Myths. He is an editor of progressivecity.net and Participating Editor for Latin American Perspectives and Local Environment. He is active in community and environmental issues in New York City.

Jon McMillan, Director of Planning, TF Cornerstone

Jon McMillan is Planning Director for TF Cornerstone, a major New York City real estate firm that specializes in large-scale public/ private partnerships. Jon has been with the company for 21 years and was previously Director of Planning for Battery Park City. Jon has an MS in Urban Planning from Columbia University and an MBA from New York University. Jon oversaw the development of most of Queens West (3,400 units), is currently opening a 1,200-unit apartment project at Hunters Point South, which includes 800 affordable units, low-income senior housing, a school and a community center, has recently become involved in Atlantic Yards, and is taking a new midtown office development, 175 Park Avenue, through ULURP.

Barika X. Williams, Executive Director, Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development Inc. (ANHD)

Barika X. Williams is the Executive Director of the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development Inc. (ANHD) a leading non-for-profit focused on creating housing and economic justice for all New Yorkers. Ms. Williams previously served as the Assistant Secretary for Housing for the State of New York under Governor Andrew M. Cuomo where she managed the New York’s major housing priorities including the $20 billion housing plan and expanding tenant protections statewide. Ms. Williams is the 2020 recipient of APA-NYM’s Robert W. Ponte Award for her commitment to a more just NYC built environment that understands systemic racism’s intersection to place and community.

Spencer Williams, AICP, Assoc., AIA, Director of Advocacy, MAS (MODERATOR)

Spencer Williams is the Director of Advocacy at MAS. Before joining MAS, he worked on growth management and equity planning in the Northwest, working to advance 20-minute neighborhoods as part of a healthy, connected city as a member of the City of Portland’s Urban Design Studio. He also supported the City of Seattle’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda as an advocate, City Planning Commissioner, and Council Staff. At MAS, Spencer heads up the Livable Neighborhoods Program (LNP), which helps local leaders in under-resourced communities develop the knowledge and tools that they need to participate effectively in public land use review processes and engage in creative, community-based design and planning. He is a certified planner who holds a Master of Urban & Regional Planning degree from Portland State University and B.F.A. in Architecture from Savannah College of Art and Design. He currently resides in Brooklyn.

Did you miss our first session, “Towards Comprehensive Planning: Global Cities in Conversation”? Catch up here! You also can check out MAS’s most recent testimony to the New York City Council Committee on Governmental Operations about how comprehensive community-based planning is essential to sound land use policy here.

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