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 historic preservation. She also writes on crime and its consequences for neighborhoods.
Vitullo-Martin has been widely published in a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, Monocle, Forbes, and Fortune, as well as academic journals. She has authored and edited three books, including Breaking Away: The Future of Cities (Century Foundation Press, 1996).
Prior to joining RPA, Vitullo-Martin served as a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Rethinking Development at the Manhattan Institute, Senior Fellow and Director of the Citizens Jury Project at the Vera Institute of Justice, Senior Editorial Advisor for the Commonwealth Fund, Managing Editor for the Mayor's Commission on New York City in the Year 2000, Assistant Commissioner for Planning and Development with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, and Executive Director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council. In addition, she taught at the Graduate School of Management at New School University, the Graduate Department of Urban Planning at Hunter College, and the Department of Politics and Education at Columbia University. She has edited and written numerous reports for foundations and for the city, state, and federal governments.
Vitullo-Martin holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. She lives on the West Side of Manhattan with her husband.
Email: jvm@rpa.org
Phone: 212.253.2727
- "Militarized Urbanism" Chokes U.S., USA Today, 17-October-2011
- Food Revolution Prompts Entrepreneurs to Make it in New York, Gotham Gazette, 28-July-2011
- Learning to Love the FDR Drive: East River Waterfront Esplanade Reclaims a Stretch of Downtown, New York Daily News, 15-July-2011
- Stifling American Growth, USA Today, 13-July-2011
- Bedlam Is Not Inevitable, New York Times
Room for Debate, 8-July-2011
- Made in NYC: Apple's Industrial Evolution, New York Post, 12-June-2011
- Construction Labor Costs in New York City: A Moment of Opportunity with Hope Cohen, RPA Report, May-2011
- Union Change or Die, New York Post, 29-Apr-2011
- What Brown Did For Us, New York Post, 27-Mar-2011
- Harlem globe trotter, New York Post, 23-Jan-2011
- City, slicker, New York Post, 26-Dec-2010
- A new growth-killer, New York Post, 24-Nov-2010
- Not as Easy as A, B, C, Wall Street Journal, 10-Nov-2010
- Knock, knock, knockin' on Dylan's door, Globe & Mail, 9-Nov-2010
- A show of strength: Ground Zero rises at last, USA Today, 10-Sept-2010
- Mosque Backers, Answer these Questions, USA Today, 10-Aug-2010
- Big-Footed by the EPA in Brooklyn, Wall Street Journal, 24-July-2010
- Community Benefit Agreement will Cripple Waterfront, Buffalo News, 16-July-2010
- Saving Coney Island, New York Post, 4-July-10
- Bricks and Mortals, Wall Street Journal, 18-May-2010
- How Geeks Get Us Around Town, Wall Street Journal, 7-May-2010
- Confronting the Mire on 34th Street: The Long Run, New York Times Room for Debate, 26-Apr-10
- Has Landmarking in New York Gone Too Far?, New York Post, 25-Apr-10
- The "Authentic" City Wrecking Ball, Wall Street Journal, 5-Mar-10
- Tribeca's Civil War Over PS 234, New York Post, 13-Jan-10
- Naked City, New York Post, 10-Jan-10
- Time for Town Halls, New York Post, 6-Jan-10
- Political Trends for 2010: Development Back on Track?, New York Post, 3-Jan-10
- Columbia Gets a Lesson in Property Rights, Wall Street Journal, 2-Jan-10
- After Kingsbridge, A Dangerous Backslide for the Bronx, New York Daily News, 24-Dec-09
- What the Late Middle Ages Wrought, Wall Street Journal, 19-Dec-09
- What Oprah's Departure Means for the Windy City, Wall Street Journal, 26-Nov-09
- NYC's Recipe for Going Bust, New York Post, 5-Nov-09
- Don't "Superfund" the Gowanus, New York Post, 22-Sept-09
- Chicago, City Without Limits, Wall Street Journal, 20-June-09
- Sidewalks, New York Post, 24-May-09
- Public-Housing Hope, New York Post, 18-May-09
- Lessons In Public Housing, Forbes.com, 6-May-09
- The Bronx Is Up, Newsletter, Feb-09
- Bronx Cheer, New York Post, 22-Feb-09
- Gimme Shelter, New York Post, 22-Feb-09 (Review of Gimme
Shelter by Mary Elizabeth Williams) - How a City Lost Its Soul, The Wall Street Journal, 1-Feb-09
(Review of Getting Ghost by Luke Bergmann)
2008:
- Blight by Government, Newsletter, Dec-08
- Spray It Loud!, New York Post, 28-Dec-08 (Review of Graffiti Lives by Gregory J. Snyder)
- Looking Ahead to the New Year, Gotham Gazette Symposium, 22-Dec-08
- MTA asks for shared sacrifice--but squanders its assets, New York Daily News, 10-Dec-08
- Big & Beautiful For Hell's Kitchen, New York Post, 3-Dec-08
- A Step Toward Market-Rate Housing for NYCHA, Newsletter, Nov-08
- New York on the Block, New York Post, 29-Nov-08
- A Congregation Fights for the Right to Raze Its Ugly Church, Wall Street Journal, 21-Nov-08
- NYC's Housing Hope, New York Post, 19-Nov-08
- Rezoning the Lower East Side, Newsletter, Oct-08
- Brooklyn's Retail Boom, Gotham Gazette, 14-Oct-08
- New York For Sale, New York Post, 12-Oct-08
- Strong housing stock, picturesque waterfront help Hudson Valley's Newburgh,
New York Daily News, 10-Oct-08 - Yes! Redevelop Willets Point, Newsletter, Sept-08
- A Change For A Cleaner Queens, New York Post, 24-Sept-08
- Behind The Latest Harlem Renaissance, New York Post, 7-Sept-08
- NYC Public Housing in Crisis, New York Daily News, 21-Aug-08
- He Changed The World (Everyone Says So), New York Post, 17-Aug-08
- East Side Overload, New York Post, 11-Aug-08
- Rescuing Rockaway, New York Post, 2-July-08
- Rezone the Rockaways--They've Waited Long Enough, Newsletter, June-08
- Revenge Of The Bad Old Days, New York Post, 29-June-08 (This
article also appeared on RealClearPolitics.com, 29-June-08) - "Home Girl," New York Post, 29-June-08
- In the Heights: Vitality and Diversity at Manhattan's Tip, Gotham
Gazette, 23-June-08 - Urbanism II: Remaking Harlem, Monocle, July/Aug-08
- 'Preservation' Poppycock, New York Post, 20-June-08
- Song of Brooklyn, New York Post, 1-June-08
- Expanding a Hospital in Historic Territory, Newsletter, May-08
- Save a 'Duck,' Damn a Hospital, New York Post, 22-May-08
- To Save Moynihan Station, New York Post, 1-Apr-08
- Redeveloping Public Housing, Newsletter, Mar-08
- Urban Decay, Wall Street Journal, 14-Mar-08
- Dooming Our Cities, New York Post, 5-Mar-08
- GENTRIFEARCATION, New York Post, 2-Mar-08
- 125th Street: Rezoning an Icon, Newsletter, Feb-08
- Mayor Bloomberg: Right on Neighborhoods, Right on Immigration, Jan-08
- 125th Street: Yes, Rezone, New York Post, 31-Jan-08
- Ahead of the Curve, New York Post, 6-Jan-08
- Due To Ex-spire, New York Post, 6-Jan-08
- A Town Without Churches?, Newsletter, Dec-07
- The Biggest Mies Collection, Wall Street Journal, 22-Dec-07
- Hard-Core Homeless, New York Post, 6-Dec-07
- Thinking BIG for New York City, Newsletter, Oct/Nov-07
- New York Gritty, New York Post, 2-Dec-07
- Newburgh's Newcomers, Wall Street Journal, 17-Nov-07
- A Tale of Two Cities, New York Post, 4-Nov-07
- Royal 'Hood, New York Post, 28-Oct-07
- When Skid Row Goes Citywide, New York Post, 23-Oct-07
- Dismissed by Jane Jacobs, Harlem Reinventing Itself as a Mixed--Use Haven, New York Sun, 18-Oct-07
- On the Boardwalk, Wall Street Journal, 12-Oct-07
- New York's Lost Italian Heritage, New York Post, 8-Oct-07
- Four Jane Jacobs Ideas that Should Have Made a Difference, Newsletter, Sept-07
- Jane Jacobs's New York, New York Sun, 27-Sept-07
- Linking a City Housing Authority's Money Woes and a Jacobs Complaint,
New York Sun, 13-Sept-07 - West Village Houses a Monument to a 1960s Development Battle,
New York Sun, 30-Aug-07 - Church Cleanup, New York Post, 16-Aug-07
- Homeless Hell, New York Post, 13-Aug-07
- Facing its Past, Newark Gets Ready for its Future, Newsletter, July-07
- Newark: From Betrayal to Hope, New York Post, 25-July-07
- The Day the Music Died, Wall Street Journal, 20-July-07
- Banking On Downtown, New York Post, 28-June-07
- Brooklyn Neighborhood Resists Eminent Domain, New York Sun, 7-June-07
- Turning a Profit for the Projects, New York Post, 7-June-07
- The Mayor is Right: Rezone Jamaica, Newsletter, May-07
- A Solution to Crawling City Traffic? Not So Fast, New York Times, 20-May-07
- London Real Estate Hits the Stratosphere, New York Sun, 10-May-07
- Searching for Land--and Finding It, Gotham Gazette, 30-Apr-07
- If You Build It, New York Post, 23-Apr-07
- Keeping NYC Great, New York Post, 23-Apr-07
- Bushwick Buzzing, but Not Quite Ready for Prime Time, New York Sun, 19-Apr-07
- Columbia's Greed, New York Post, 4-Apr-07
- C'mon, Columbia, Take Eminent Domain Off the Table, Newsletter, Mar-07
- Save Our Cities, Wall Street Journal, 30-Mar-07
- Columbia Expansion Spikes West Harlem Prices, New York Sun, 29-Mar-07
- A Once-Troubled Housing Complex Seeks Change, New York Sun, 15-Mar-07
- A City's Face is Its Fortune, Cambridge Architecture, Winter/Spring-07
- Cross Country: Starrett City Blues, Wall Street Journal, 10-Mar-07
- What to Make of Starrett City, Newsletter, Feb-07
- The Starrett Stink, New York Post, 20-Feb-07
- Keeping New York Competitive, Newsletter, Jan-07
- Homeless in America, Wall Street Journal, 18-Jan-07
- A Fatal Kindness, New York Post, 22-Dec-06
- 2030 or Bust: Bloomberg's Challenge to NYC, New York Post, 13-Dec-06
- Will London Beat New York?, Newsletter, Nov-06
- A Loving Romp Through NYC, New York Post, 19-Nov-06
- Will Philly be the Next Great City?, Newsletter, Oct-06
- Yo! Philly gets dissed, big-time, Philadelphia Daily News, 25-Oct-06
- Gateway Newark, New York Times, 22-Oct-06
- A Tale of Several Cities, Wall Street Journal, 20-Oct-06
- Will Newark Finally Come Back?, Newsletter, Sept-06
- And the Next 'Sixth Borough' Is--Newark, New York Sun, 28-Sept-06
- New York Rebounds, Wall Street Journal, 11-Sept-06
- Blight on the Block, New York Post, 5-Sept-06
- Bloomberg Confronts Homelessness--And Neighborhoods, Newsletter, Aug-06
- Follow Atlanta housing model, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 24-Aug-06
- Project Vision, The Wall Street Journal, 18-Aug-06
- Housing Advocacy Group Works at Being a Good Neighbor, New York Sun, 3-Aug-06
- With Scenic Homes and a Rich Heritage, Addisleigh Park Is Thriving, New York Sun, 20-July-06
- A Rehabilitation 20 Years in the Making, Clinton Hill Is Now Soaring, New York Sun, 13-July-06
- The Icon on 34th St., New York Post, 9-July-06
- A Surprise Lurks at Stuyvesant Town--Luxury Rentals, New York Sun, 6-July-06
- Can New York Save Its Houses of Worship?, Newsletter, June-06
- Developers Partner With Preservationists To Save Houses of Worship,
New York Sun, 29-June-06 - Ambiguous Utopias, Books & Culture, May/June-06
- Eminent Domain: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Newsletter, May-06
- Creative Destruction, Wall Street Journal, 27-May-06
- The Queen Mary 2 Sails into the Brooklyn Waterfront Wars, Newsletter, Apr-06
- The Battle of Red Hook, New York Sun, 13-Apr-06
- Signs Point to Rollback of City Program That Spurs Development, New York Sun, 6-Apr-06
- The Anatomy of New York, New York Post, 2-April-06
- Will They ever Rebuild Ground Zero?, Newsletter, Mar-06
- Market Rate Housing Comes to Harlem, Feb-06
- Saving Sherman Creek, Jan-06
- What Bloomberg Should Do Next: De-Regulating New York, Dec-05
- The City Council Does the Right Thing: Un-Landmarking in the Boroughs, Nov-05
- The Bronx is Up, Oct-05
- Thinking about Zoning's Relief Valves, Sept-05
- Rethinking Community-Facilities Zoning, July-05
- Thinking about Live/Work, June-05
- Doing it Right: Affordable Home Ownership in Harlem, May-05
- The False War between Housing and Jobs, Apr-05
- Landmarking Modernist Buildings?, Mar-05
- Thinking about Eminent Domain, Feb-05
- Building Code Blues: Will New York be Left Behind?, Jan-05
- Thinking about the Brooklyn Waterfront, Dec-04
- Thinking about Building Codes, Nov-04
- Thinking about Desolate Neighborhoods and Environmental Reviews, Oct-04
- Thinking about Home-Ownership in Low-Income Neighborhoods, Sept-04
- Thinking about Inclusionary Zoning, Aug-04
- Rezoning Hunters Point, July-04
- Thinking About Markets and the Mayor's Affordable Housing Plans, June-04
- Thinking About Ratner's Urban Renewal, May-04
- Rezoning West Harlem: Good for Harlem, Good for New York, Apr-04
- Rezoning Red Hook, Mar-04
- Thinking About the City Council's Barriers to Building, Feb-04
- The West Side Rethinks Donald Trump's Riverside South, Jan-04
- Thinking About Brooklyn Markets, Dec-03
- Mayor Bloomberg Rethinks a Misguided Tax, Nov-03
- Rethinking Staten Island, Oct-03
