URBAN ANCHORS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
A COMMITMENT TO PLACE, GROWTH, AND COMMUNITY
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URBAN RESEARCH
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October 8-9, 2007
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BIOGRAPHIES (D-L)
Anne d’Harnoncourt has served as The George D. Widener Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1982, and as both Director and CEO of the Museum since 1997. As Director, she has fostered the growth and distinction of the Museum’s professional staff, and encouraged a sequence of major exhibitions and publications by Museum curators and scholars. Between 1992 and 1995, she oversaw the reinstallation of the European collections in more than ninety galleries; renovation of twenty galleries of modern and contemporary art followed in 2000. Prior to becoming Director, Miss d’Harnoncourt served as the Museum’s Curator of Twentieth-Century Art from 1972 to 1982. A specialist in the art of Marcel Duchamp, she co-organized a major retrospective exhibition in 1973-1974, which traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The Art Institute of Chicago. During her tenure as curator, the Museum built its contemporary collections and acquired many important works. She has written extensively about Duchamp, John Cage, Futurism, and other topics in modern and contemporary art. Miss d’Harnoncourt has a B.A. from Radcliffe College and an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
Ronald J. Daniels is the 28th Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. He is Professor of Law at Penn Law School, specializing in international development and the “rule of law,” especially the challenges of building strong laws and legal institutions in the developing countries. At Penn, he has introduced a wide variety of new programs and initiatives, including: Penn World Scholars, Penn Civic Scholars, International Offerings Fund, Penn in Botswana, Penn Global Forum and Penn Distinguished International Scholars Series, Ideas in Action, Summer Mentorship Program, and Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program. He is an author or editor of five books, including a forthcoming book (2008) on the rule of law in global societies and Rethinking the Welfare State (2005), an analysis of global social welfare policies, especially the effectiveness of government vouchers. He is co-editor of On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina (2006) and The Security of Freedom (2001). He also co-edited Corporate Decision-Making In Canada (1995) and has published more than 40 scholarly articles in such areas as university education, corporate and securities law, and international regulation.
Manuel Diaz is Mayor of City of Miami, Florida. First elected in 2001 and re-elected to a second term in 2005, he has led Miami toward a renaissance of prosperity and opportunity. Mr. Diaz is also a partner in the law firm of Diaz & O’Naghten, L.L.P. He serves on the advisory board for the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Civic Innovation, the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Urban Research, the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, and was chosen as a judge for the Rudy Bruner Award for excellence in urban design. Mr. Diaz attended Miami-Dade College, Florida International University and the University of Miami’s School of Law.
Haya El Nasser is a reporter for USA Today where she covers demographics, growth, development, and planning. She has been with the newspaper since 1984, and has reported on the Northridge Earthquake, the Rodney King beating, the LA riots, and the OJ Simpson trial. In recent years, her area of focus has expanded to include sprawl, urban and suburban planning, the revitalization of cities, new urbanism, and housing.
Nancy A. Goldenberg is the Vice President of Planning for the Center City District, a privately-funded business improvement district in downtown Philadelphia. She is responsible for managing the CCD’s strategic planning initiatives, capital programs, research and analysis, and transportation work. She previously served as the CCD’s Director of Public Information. Prior to joining the Center City District, Nancy administered a $26 million grant program at the Fairmount Park Commission to preserve the natural areas of the park and also served as the assistant township manager in Lower Merion Township, PA. She is also the author of the 1990 master plan for the River Drives, specifically Kelly
Drive and Martin Luther King Jr., Drive. Nancy is a graduate of George Washington University and the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a masters degree in city planning. She is the founder of the Philadelphia Outward Bound Center, president of the PennDesign Alumni Association, and chairman of Summer Search Philadelphia.
Rosalind Greenstein is the Chair of the Department of Economic and Community Development at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The Department’s goal is to become a preeminent multi-disciplinary center for practice improvement, research, and advanced study related to the role of land in economic and community development. Roz co-edited Urban-Suburban Interdependencies with Wim Wiewel and Recycling the City with Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz. Previously, she worked as a regional economist at DRI/McGraw-Hill, as the research director for the Massachusetts’ Industrial Services Program, and taught in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She
earned a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a B.A. in economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Amy Gutmann is the eighth president of the University of Pennsylvania. She took office in July of 2004. She also holds faculty appointments in Political Science, Communication, Philosophy, and Education. Gutmann came to Penn from Princeton University, where she served as Provost, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics, Academic Advisor to the President, Dean of the Faculty, and was Founding Director of the University Center for Human Values. Gutmann is former President of the American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, a Member of the American Philosophical Society, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Education. She has published more than 100 articles and essays and edited books in political philosophy, practical ethics, and education. Her most recent books include Why Deliberative Democracy? (with D. Thompson), Identity in Democracy, Democratic Education, Democracy
and Disagreement (with D. Thompson) and Color Conscious (with K. Anthony Appiah).
Gary Hack is Dean of the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania and Paley Professor of City & Regional Planning. He is an urban designer with experience in planning over 30 cities in the US, Canada, and abroad. These include planning of the West Side Waterfront and Rockefeller Park in New York City, the redevelopment of the Prudential Center in Boston, and collaborating on the competition-winning scheme for redeveloping the World Trade Center. He also led the team that prepared a new metropolitan development plan for Bangkok. He is the author of several books on urban design, including Site Planning, Global Regional Cities, and Urban Design in a Global Context.
Hugh Hardy, FAIA, is the founder of H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, an outgrowth of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates. Known for design of distinctive new buildings, restoration of historic structures, and planning projects for the public realm, his experience ranges from three decades of work at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the restoration of Radio City Music Hall to the redesign of Bryant Park, and Greenwich Street South, a planning study for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to develop a new residential community. In 2001, he was awarded the Placemark Award from the Design History Foundation for his role in shaping the public life of cities and also received
the 2000 Commissioner’s Award for Excellence in Public Architecture from the U.S. General Services Administration.
Ira Harkavy is Associate Vice President and founding Director of the Center for Community Partnerships (CCP), University of Pennsylvania. An historian, Harkavy has helped to develop service learning and academically-based community service courses as well as participatory action research projects that involve faculty and students from across the university. For over twenty years, he has been actively involved in working to involve colleges and universities in democratic partnerships with local public schools and their communities. In 2007, Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracy
In An Age of Education Reform, which Harkavy co-authored with Lee Benson and John Puckett, was published by Temple University Press.
Ted Howard is the founding Executive Director of The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland. The Collaborative is a national leader in the fast growing field of community wealth building strategies and policy development. The Collaborative’s “Anchor Institutions” project focuses on the role universities, hospitals and other anchors can play as an emerging community building asset. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives, a research institute based in Washington, D.C. He is author or co-author of several books, including Ending Hunger and Entropy. His recent articles include “Asset Building Comes of Age” in Shelterforce
and “7 Cool Companies” in Yes!. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Search for Common Ground, the world’s largest conflict resolution NGO.
Danielle DiLeo Kim, AIA, is a Senior Architect and Planner at MGA Partners and is active in the Philadelphia community. Danielle served as Project Planner for the Fairmount Park Centennial District Master Plan, the Schuylkill River Trail Master Plan, and the Avenue of the Arts Visioning Plan. Danielle recently completed the expansion to the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and is currently Project Architect for The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center. Danielle has a Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech. She has previously worked for WRT and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. She currently serves on the Board of the American Institute of Architects and the Center for Architecture.
Linda Kowalcky is Deputy Director of Economic Planning at the Boston Redevelopment Authority and is Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s Liaison to Higher Education. Her job encompasses institutional expansion and planning, cityled higher education initiatives, and city-university partnerships. Linda has taught government and public policy at the University of Missouri, Johns Hopkins University, Northeastern University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Previous government work includes serving as staff in the U.S. House of Representatives on education, budget, and economic policy. Linda has an M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. from Syracuse University.
Nancy Levinson is Director of the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory, an urban design/research center of the College of Design at Arizona State University. Previously, she worked at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she cofounded Harvard Design Magazine, and at Princeton Architectural Press, where she acquired books on topics ranging from visual perception to landscape urbanism. She writes frequently for design periodicals, including Architectural Record, where she is a contributing editor, Perspecta, I.D., Metropolis, Dwell, Landscape Architecture, Graphis, Planning, and
Historic Preservation. For two years she wrote the weblog Pixel Points for the online Arts Journal. She received a Master of architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and practiced for several years before moving into design publishing and academia.
Scott Levitan is Senior Vice President and Development Director of the Science + Technology Park at Johns Hopkins and the New East Baltimore Community—an $800 million project adjoining. Mr. Levitan provides general oversight of the organization’s business, market position and relationships in the region. He also provides day-to-day leadership to the Baltimore office and to the management of budgets, schedules and all aspects of ongoing development at the Science + Technology Park at Johns Hopkins. Most recently Mr. Levitan was the Executive Director of Real Estate Development for Georgia Tech University, where he oversaw all real estate planning and development activities for the university
including the development of Technology Square, a 1.6 million-square-foot institute sponsored, privatized development in Midtown Atlanta. Mr. Levitan also served as the Director of University and Commercial Real Estate for Harvard University, where he was responsible for over 2 million square feet of property owned by Harvard. Mr. Levitan holds a master of architecture in urban design from Harvard University, a master of arts in conservation studies from the University of York in York England, and a bachelor of architecture from Louisiana State University.
Jane E. Light was appointed Library Director for the City of San Jose Public Library in 1997. Prior to taking this position, she was the director of the Redwood City Public Library. During her tenure, the library was selected the first national Library of the Year by Library Journal and Gale Research, Inc. Ms. Light served as Assistant City Manager in Redwood City for several years concurrently with her appointment as Library Director. She also serves as a library building and management consultant assisting entities in analyzing facility needs for public libraries and advising architects working on library buildings. She has held numerous leadership positions at the state and national levels with Library Associations. She recently served on the Online Computer Library Center User’s Council representing Pacific Network libraries and as a Board Member and President of the Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County. Ms. Light is a frequent speaker about library facilities planning and building design. She co-authored an article with Linda Crowe titled “Desperately Seeking A System” which appeared in Library Journal in 1994.
John T. Livingston is President and Chief Operating Officer of Tishman Urban Development Corporation and the President of Tishman Construction Corporation. He recently managed the development of the Westin New York at Times Square, an 863-room hotel on the corner of 43rd Street and 8th Avenue in New York City and the 200,000 square foot E Walk® on the New 42nd Street, an urban entertainment project. He oversees the construction operations of Tishman Construction Corporation, with nine offices nationally. Mr. Livingston is an Adjunct Professor for Columbia
University’s Graduate School of Real Estate Development and a member of the Board of the Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds bachelor’s in design of the environment from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s in city planning from Harvard University.
Andrew S. Lynn is Vice President for Planning and Development at Madison Square Garden. Before joining the Garden, he worked for the City of New York as Executive Director of the Department of City Planning, Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Sanitation, Counsel to the City Council Land Use Committee, and Land Use Counsel to the City Charter Revision Commission. He began his career practicing real estate law at the firm of Webster & Sheffield.