Philip Plotch

Philip Mark Plotch is an author, professor, and transportation planner. He is best known for leading efforts to rebuild the World Trade Center and his research on the politics and planning behind transportation megaprojects.

Career

Author and academic

Philp Mark Plotch writes articles and op-eds for academic and general publications including a regular column in Gotham Gazette about economic development and transportation issues.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} In 2015, Rutgers University Press published his book Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject.^[8]

Plotch received the American Planning Association’s 2015 New York Metro Chapter journalism award for his in-depth research and hard hitting analysis behind the planning and politics of New York's transportation system.^[9] Previous winners have included Kate Ascher, Brendan Gill, Paul Goldberger, Ken Jackson, and Elizabeth Kolbert.^[10][11] Plotch is now under contract with Cornell University Press to write a book about the Second Avenue Subway.^[12]

Plotch is an assistant professor of political science and the director of the master of public administration program at Saint Peter's University.^[13] He previously taught as an adjunct in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College.^[14]

Transportation planner and World Trade Center Redevelopment Director

As director of World Trade Center redevelopment and special projects at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Plotch developed new transportation programs, oversaw the design and construction of Lower Manhattan open spaces, and administered programs to rebuild structures.^{[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]}

Between 1992 and 2005, as the manager of policy and planning at the headquarters of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Plotch led planning improvements for the New York metropolitan area's transportation system including the 7 Subway Extension to the Hudson Yards, the Second Avenue Subway, and intelligent transportation systems.^[23][24]

Education

Plotch received his master in urban planning degree from Hunter College and his Ph.D. in public and urban policy from the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School.^[25]

Civic leadership

He lives in the Radburn section of Fair Lawn, New Jersey,^[26] where he has published Fair Lawn News, served on the planning board and the economic development committee, and led efforts to revise election procedures and improve pedestrian safety.^{[27][28][29][30][31]}

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