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Hunter College Department of Urban Affairs and Planning Student Publication Urbanreview Urbanreview Spring 2012 Volume 10 Issue 2 Hunter College Department of Urban Affairs and Planning Student Publication UrbanReview UrbanReview Alumni Interview with Dr. Ken Reardon – Jeff Peel 4 Student Spotlight – Lauren Masseria & Sarah Fields 7 On What Was – Ryan Ridings 8 Editorial: Rehabbing J-51 – Ahmed Tigani 10 Modernist Architecture in Central & Eastern Europe – Oksana Miranova 12 Power in Wall Street – Thomas White 16 The Future of Public Green Spaces – Sharon Moskovits 20 24 Shadow of the Istanbul Nouveau – Luis Gallo Contents Masthead Editor-in-Chief: Erin McAuliff Assistant Editor: Mallory Baker Peer Review Members: Mallory Baker, Jamie Leggett, Lauren Masseria, Jeff Peel, Chris Van Eyken & Thomas White Contributing Editors: Emily Anderson, Jamie Leggett, Lauren Masseria, Jeff Peel & Chris Van Eyken Layout and Design: John Namako & Chris Van Eyken Cover photo by Marguerite Koehler 2 3 UrbanReview Letter from the Editor Dear Readers, Welcome to the Spring 2012 issue of the Urban Review. Urban Review is a student produced publication of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning that serves as a forum for ideas, a showcase of student projects and an opportunity for students to publish their works. This semester, we are pleased to present submissions from both undergraduate and graduate students in the program. This spring’s issue does not reflect one common theme. Instead, it builds on some of the most interesting and reoccurring discussions we have in the classroom and between our peers and colleagues- including those pre- sented by last semester’s authors. The diversity of topics in this issue speaks not only to the varied interests of our students, but also to the wide impact Hunter grads will eventually make on our field. We would like to thank Dr. Ken Reardon, a 1982 MUP graduate, for taking his time to speak with us about his experience at Hunter and his current work. Dr. Reardon’s life-long dedication to social justice and community- based planning is an inspiration and evidence of the lasting impact of a Hunter College education. Please enjoy this issue and do not forget to check out UAP’s new website (www.hunteruap.org) where you can find past issues of the Urban Review in PDF format by clicking People & Community/ Organizations/ Student Groups. Erin McAuliff Editor-in-Chief We dedicate this issue to outgoing UAP Director of Programming and Communications Mary Rocco. She is a a graduate of both the Master’s in Urban Planning program and the BA in Urban Studies program. For nearly five years, she has helped students navigate the program, the city and their individual career paths. Beginning in the Fall of 2012, Mary will be a candidate for a Ph.D in Urban Planning at the Univer- sity of Pennslyvania. Students and faculty will both miss Mary’s warm presence and can-do attitude. We wish her well at Penn and in all her future endeavors. 3 UrbanReview UrbanReview Alumni Interview: Dr.Ken Reardon By Jeff Peel Ken Reardon received his Masters in Urban Planning from Hunter College in 1982- going on to receive his Ph.D. in planning from Cornell University. Reardon was a tenured planning professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, and is currently Director of the Graduate Program in City and Regional Planning at the University of Memphis. Ken Reardon received his Masters in Urban Planning from Hunter his students were doing a study of statewide community organiz- College in 1982, and went on to receive his Ph.D. in City and Re- ing groups. Professor Spiegel’s questions forced me to think much gional Planning from Cornell University. Reardon was a tenured more critically about the structural causes of inequality that we planning professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- were struggling to address in Trenton. Professor Spiegel invited paign, associate professor and chairperson of the Department of me to apply to his graduate program if I ever felt the need to take City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, and is currently a break from my community organizing activities. In between -or professor and director of the Graduate Program in City and Re- ganizing jobs, I thought I would enhance my analytical skills. I was gional Planning at the University of Memphis. attracted to the Urban Affairs Program because of its location, his- tory of field-based learning, and the faculty. What was your background before Hunter College, and what made you choose the school? The Department of Urban Affairs and Planning has had a history of activism and organizing since its inception. Was that true In the mid- 1970s, I was serving as the Executive Director of the during your time in the program? New Jersey Federation of Senior Citizens – a statewide coalition of more than 400 retiree organizations involved in economic justice Upon entering the program, I quickly got to know six to eight ac- organizing in New Jersey. Professor Hans Spiegel, then Director tivists who had been doing terrific environmental, economic and of the Urban Affairs Program at Hunter, approached me. He and social justice work in cities across the country. They came to NYC, 4 5 UrbanReview in large part, to experience life in the Big Apple and to learn from tion in city and regional planning from the likes of Sullivan, Spie- a number of innovative organizing, planning and design efforts gel, Salins, Hyman, Johnson, Milczarski, Gross, Moses and Birch. underway in the city. Third, I was introduced to an experiential approach to teaching and learning, which I subsequently adopted and successfully used I was so delighted to be back in the city, with a diverse set of as a planning professor for more than 25 years. Fourth, I devel- students from across the country who were committed to oped a number of life-long friendships with classmates that have making a difference that I switched from the one-year urban deepened and endured for nearly 30 years – individuals who have affairs curricula to the two-year planning program. provided me with professional advice, personal support, and many hilarious moments. For most of my time at Hunter, a group of us met at Grand Cen- tral every Sunday morning to visit a unique neighborhood where Finally, the program modeled for me the way in which faculty equity-oriented planning was being attempted. We would divide can engage in various forms of what Boyer referred to as the up the responsibilities for studying the history of these efforts, scholarship of engagement that support the empowerment ef- identifying local sites to visit, and finding the coolest ethnic eatery forts of poor people and their allies. We referred to Hunter as or bar to have dinner. “The People’s Planning School” – offering a first-rate education to poor, working class and middle-income social justice oriented While you came into the program with an organizing background, activists who were dissatisfied simply to describe the world as it was there a specific professor or course that shaped your future? is but committed to working with others, using their organizing and planning skills, to bring about some form of Dr. King’s Beloved In my first semester, I had the good fortune of having Don Sullivan, Community! then Director of the Urban Planning program, for an Introduction to Housing course. Don was brilliant, demanding and intolerant of Where did you go after Hunter and how did your time in our sloppy work – which all of my classmates, including myself, were program help you get there? occasionally guilty of submitting. He was wicked smart, commit- ted to supporting the revitalization efforts of CBOs, and fully in- The influence of Hunter College played a key role in my choices volved in a number of groups, such as the Settlement Housing of Cornell for my Ph.D. and the University of Minnesota for my Fund and LISC, which were seeking to promote a more balanced Post-Doctoral work and the community-based research projects approach to economic and community development in the City. that I have subsequently chosen to pursue. I have little doubt that were it not for my planning education at UCLA – i.e. the University I also had the opportunity to enroll in Peter Salins’ Location on the Corner of Lexington Avenue – aka Hunter College, I would Theory class, which offered a terrific introduction to the chang- have not been involved in efforts to: preserve the Essex Street ing structure of the NYC economy and physical form. While Peter Market, eliminate the City’s Auction Sales Housing Program, es- was, to say the least, quite conservative and active in the estab- tablish the East St. Louis Action Research Project, prepare a post- lishment of the Manhattan Institute, he welcomed alternative disaster recovery plan for the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans points of view and encouraged my interest in planning in spite of with ACORN, oppose a city-sponsored effort to raze one of Mem- his deep opposition to my politics. I also had the opportunity to phis’ last public housing complexes, and organize opposition to take a course on full employment offered by Bert Gross and Stan the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s decision to Moses that Paul Davidoff lectured in on several occasions. hold the annual conference in Charleston, on whose State House grounds the Confederate flag is proudly displayed. How else did Don Sullivan play a role in shaping your future? You’re now Director of the Graduate Program in City and Don regularly undertook a variety of community-based research Regional Planning at the University of Memphis.
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