Tom Angotti
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 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, Associate Editor for America of Planning Practice and Research, Participating Editor for Latin American Perspectives, and Editor of Planners Network. 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.
Articles by Tom Angotti
Speculation and Change: Community Land in New York City
Remarking on recent trends in New York City’s real estate, urban planner Tom Angotti offers a ten point plan for uniting land and people in New York City.
By Tom Angotti[i]
New York’s landed oligarchy boasts that the city is “The Real Estate Capital of the World.” This popular mythology helps to manufacture consent for the planning, [...]