Events

Conferences and panel discussions presented by CUI or featuring CUI contributors.


  • What's Wrong with New York City's Property Tax? And How We Can Fix It
  • Infrastructure We Can Live With: The Neighborly Substation
  • Construction Costs Through the Roof: What New York Can Do
  • The Future of Public Housing: Two Models, Atlanta and New York

RPA Center for Urban Innovation

The Center for Urban Innovation pursues sensible, pragmatic approaches to urban development. Rising above the ideological debates that have gotten in the way of actually solving the many difficult problems facing cities, CUI focuses on the major trends that are...

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Contributors

Julia Vitullo-Martin
Julia Vitullo-Martin is a Senior Fellow at the Regional Plan Association and Director of the Center for Urban Innovation. Her work focuses on development issues such as planning and zoning, housing, waterfront development, environmental review, building and fire codes, and...
Hope Cohen
Hope Cohen is associate director of RPA's Center for Urban Innovation. Before coming to RPA, Cohen was deputy director of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Rethinking Development, where she focused principally on issues of urban environment and infrastructure, publishing...
Regional Plan Association

Debating Development

Zoning Laws Grow Up
Julie Iovine writes for the Wall Street Journal about "activist" zoning in the Bloomberg administration: "It not only shapes…
Crain's Reports that Business is Looking Down for Construction Companies
Geoffrey Decker reports for Crain's that the unionized construction industry faces continued uncertainty as nonunion contractors erode its position--the subject…
City & State Looks at New York's Sky-High Construction Costs
Jon Lentz reports for City & State on what the $1.5 billion pricetag for Dubai's Burj Khalifa would--or wouldn't--build in…
The Center Cannot Hold -- Enough People (City & State)
Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have accepted the defeat of his proposed football stadium and convention center on the far…
RPA Presents Ideas for Development in Jamaica (Queens Chronicle)
Expanding bus service between Jamaica and Flushing, extending the Air Train route to make traveling to the Resorts World Casino…