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Panel: Community Development and the Mega City

With large-scale developments underway in every borough, the physical face of New York City is already changing on a scale unseen in decades––even as the Bloomberg administration is planning for sustainable growth of nearly a million more residents by 2030. What are the implications for more livable neighborhoods and community renewal? Can City Hall's vision survive beyond the current mayoralty and the latest economic boom?

With large-scale developments underway in every borough, the physical face of New York City is already changing on a scale unseen in decades––even as the Bloomberg administration is planning for sustainable growth of nearly a million more residents by 2030. What are the implications for more livable neighborhoods and community renewal? Can City Hall’s vision survive beyond the current mayoralty and the latest economic boom?

With a presentation by …

  • Daniel L. Doctoroff, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding, City of New York

And a discussion with …

  • Rohit Aggarwala, Director, Mayor’s Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability, City of New York
  • Errol Louis, New York Daily News
  • Maria Mottola, Executive Director, The New York Foundation
  • Sheena Wright, President & CEO, Abyssinian Development Corporation
  • Kathryn S. Wylde, President & CEO, Partnership for New York City
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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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