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Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden (née Mortimer; born January 18, 1944) is an American businesswoman who is a principal at Bloomberg Associates, an international consulting service founded by Michael Bloomberg as a philanthropic venture to help city governments improve the quality of life of their citizens.
16 de jun. de 2016 · Amanda Burden es ex directora del Departamento de Planificación Urbana de Nueva York y presidenta de la Comisión de Planificación Urbana durante la alcaldía de Michael Bloomberg, desde donde trabajó en promover la revitalización de Manhattan bajo y en mejorar el acceso público al waterfront de Brooklyn, entre otros importantes ...
Learn from the former New York City Planning Commissioner and Bloomberg Associates principal how public spaces make cities work. Watch her TED talk on how to revitalize familiar features like the High Line and the Brooklyn waterfront with human-scale and sustainable solutions.
Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city’s newest public spaces, drawing on her experience as, surprisingly, an animal behaviorist. She shares the unexpected challenges of planning parks people love -- and why it's important.
Alejada de presiones mercantilistas, Amanda Burden defiende que «la ciudad ha de pensar a largo plazo, penser en el bien común», que «los espacios públicos tienen poder» y que «convertir un parque en un lugar donde la gente quiera estar, depende de que sea diseñada no como planificador urbano, sino como ciudadano».
Amanda M. Burden . Principal. Amanda M. Burden was inducted into the College of Fellows at the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP) in 2008. She served as the New York City Planning Commissioner from 2002 to 2013.
More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it's the city's great public spaces -- from tiny p...
