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Panel Discussion: Security at What Cost? Balancing Security and Public Space

5:25 PM EST on November 29, 2006

A panel of design and engineering experts along with public and private sector officials will discuss the implications of security on contemporary urban streetscapes.

Andrew Manshel, Senior Vice President, Real Estate Development, Greater Jamaica Development Corporation, will moderate a panel including:

    • Robert Ducibella, Principal, Ducibella Venter & Santore,
    • Ray Gastil, Director, Manhattan Office, New York City Department of City Planning,
    • Stephanie Gelb, Vice-President for Planning and Design, Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority
    • Claire Weisz, principal, Weisz + Yoes Architects.
Aaron Donovan
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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