1. Leadership study program New York
Urban Vision + CURE
Geeta
Mehta

2. Highlights of
NYC Planning Innovations
• High density mixed use and mixed income
developments
• Effective dialogue between City Planners,
real estate developers and community
• Public-private partnerships for building the
public realm that is pedestrian oriented,
and accessible to all
• Planning for economic resilience
• $ 20B climate change resilience plan -2013

3. The public realm defines the city

4. Central Park: Successful public spaces add value to real
estate around them

5. The Highline
a community lead initiative that triggered development all around it

6. Rockefeller Center
Good public realm makes good business sense

7. Rockefeller Center
A project is truly successful only if it also adds to the public realm of
the city

8. A wealthy city is not where the poor drive, but where the
rich USE public transport

9. Public transport in NEW YORK
• Only 25% of New Yorkers own cars
• Subways need upgrading
• Bloomberg Administration expanded
pedestrian zones and dedicated bus
lanes
• Only limited number of parking spaces
are allowed to be built

10. Absence of shopping malls keeps streets
lively and safe

11. Street is the ultimate public space

12. Battery Park City: successful zoning for Mixed income
housing and public spaces

13. Time Warner Center
Form and view corridors mandated by the city

14. Columbia Urban Design Studio in Mumbai
Eastern Waterfront 2010
• Sustainability in the context of sea level rise,
flooding and monsoons.
• Potential of the waterfront as a new public
space
• High density mixed use and mixed income
development
• Historic preservation of the docklands fabric
• Transportation infrastructure to connect the
Eastern Waterfront with the rest of the city.

15. Waterfront sustainability in the context of the Mumbai estuary,
sea level rise, flooding and monsoons.

19. Columbia Urban Design Studio
in Dharavi, Mumbai 2009

22. Incremental development of informal settlements
in parallel with high-end NEw developments

23. Sept 26 Manifesto Homework!
• Write a few lines every day about your major
‘takeaway” ideas for that day on the
notecard provided.
• The cards will be collected at the end of
each day.
• All ideas received will be aggregated.
• On September 26th
, participants will prioritize
ideas generated, and create the manifesto.