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 Rethinking Environmental Review and The Neighborly Substation, in which she analyzed the siting and urban design of electrical substations in London, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya, as well as Anaheim and New York. She has also published on these topics and others in the New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, and Gotham Gazette.
Cohen worked for many years in New York City's public sector, in areas ranging from urban planning to capital budgeting to strategic information technology. She was at MTA New York City Transit for more than a decade, concentrating for much of that time on bringing the technology used for the city's subway and bus systems into the twenty-first century.
In 2010, Cohen served on the NYC Charter Revision Commission. Since 1995, she has supplemented her professional work with voluntary public service as a member of Manhattan's Community Board 7 (Upper West Side), where she has served as board chairperson as well as land-use cochairperson
Cohen holds a BA from Harvard and an MA from the University of Chicago.
Email: hcohen@rpa.org
Phone: 646.727.0191
- Happy Birthday, NYC Zoning Resolution! You've Made It 50 Years. Now Change., RPA Spotlight, 6-Dec-11
To Build a 21st Century New York City, Bloomberg Must Totally Rethink How Zoning Works, New York Daily News, 27-Nov-11- The Case to Sell the Javits Center, Crain's New York Business, 23-Oct-11
- Why We Should Sell the Javits Center, RPA Spotlight, 13-Oct-11
- Help Wanted: More Powerful than a Locomotive..., RPA Spotlight, 10-Aug-11
- Construction Labor Costs in New York City: A Moment of Opportunity with Julia Vitullo-Martin, RPA Report, May-2011
- The High Price of Union Construction: Fix Work Rules or Jobs Will Vanish, New York Daily News, 29-Apr-11
- No More Empire State Salamanders? RPA Works to ReShapeNY, RPA Spotlight, 29-Mar-11
- City Gets More Information, Fewer Terms, For Its Politicians, RPA Spotlight, 3-Nov-10
- Spitting on New York, New York Post, 26-May-10
- Confronting the Mire on 34th Street: Buses are the Answer, New York Times Room for Debate, 26-Apr-10
- Radical Housing -- A Regional Assembly 2010 Preview, RPA Spotlight, 22-Feb-10
- Smart Transportation is About More than Wires and Chips, RPA Spotlight, 8-Feb-10
- Jay Walder's Smart New World, CUI Newsletter, Jan-10
- Bloomberg's Agenda: Build a World City of Neighborhoods, RPA Spotlight, 16-Nov-09
- UN's Debt to New York, New York Post, 27-Sept-09
- Property Taxes: Business Killer, New York Post, 9-June-09
- Bloomberg's On The Right track With Radical Plan; Now, Go Further, New York Daily News, 26-May-09
- Assessing New York City's Property Tax -- Yet Again, Newsletter, Mar/Apr-09
- Putting The Sub Back In Substations, Architect's Newspaper, 18-Feb-09
- Yes, Mayor Bloomberg, Streamline Environmental Review, New York Daily News, 13-Feb-09
- Power to the People!, Newsletter, Jan-09
- Growing NYC's Grid, New York Post, 24-Jan-09
- The Neighborly Substation, Manhattan Institute monograph, Jan-09
- Cutting the High Cost of Housing, Gotham Gazette, 15-Sept-08
- No Parking, Ever, The New York Times, 16-Aug-08
- Bulldozing Through New York, The New York Sun, 7-Aug-08
- Albany and City Hall: Here's What You Can Do to Slow Down Construction Costs, Newsletter, July-08
- Tolls, Fees, and Fares, Newsletter, Apr-08
- Clearing New York City Streets, Gotham Gazette, 14-Apr-08
- The Critics of Mayor's Toll Plan Get Silly, New York Post, 31-Mar-08
- A Simpler Alternative to Congestion Pricing, Gotham Gazette, 7-Jan-08
- Thinking Big for New York City, Newsletter, Oct/Nov-07
- Fix the Drains (and Trains and Bridges) -- and Train the Fixers, Newsletter, Aug-07
- Public Transit Should be Cheaper Option, Metro International, 6-Aug-07
- Building Blocks, The New York Times, 5-Aug-07
- Ensuring It Doesn't Happen Here, New York Post, 3-Aug-07
- Fill Potholes in Congestion Pricing Plan, New York Daily News, 26-July-07
- Improve Transit Before Congestion Pricing, Gotham Gazette, 7-May-07
- Rethinking Environmental Review, Manhattan Institute monograph, May-07
- Don't Wait for the Congestion Pricing Pilot: Fix Transit Now!, Newsletter, Apr-07
- Buses, Trains, and Automobiles, Newsletter, Dec-06
- We Will Clog You, The New York Times, 17-Dec-06
Media
- MSNBC Live, 23-June-09
- Why Not Bury Ugly Power Substations?, New York Times City Room, 16-Jan-09
- One-to-One, CUNY TV, 21-Jan-08 (Real Player)
