| Andres Duany
Planning - Urban Design - To
oversee Camden's Physical Development
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Below intro, resumes, The "Blue Ribbon Dream Team" that can save Camden, New Jersey.
John Norquist, Andres
Duany, Howard Husock, Carl Dranof, Yaromir Steiner, Anthony E. Shorris,
Robert D.
Putnam, Michael E. Porter, Kimberly Camp, James Howard
Kunstler, Jon
Van Til
October 19, 2006
By Michael McAteer
If unavailable, they should be consulted for surrogates. If Gov. Corzine chooses bureaucrats or politicians from New Jersey to oversee the city of Camden, or if the Governor returns it to local control, it will most likely continue to be New Jersey's and the U.S.A.'s biggest crime and poverty problem, as well as remaining an immense tax burden on taxpayers statewide. Absent any influence or empowered successful Urban Design professionals at the level of a Andres Duany, it will probably remain in contention for America's most physically unattractive and unappealing city as well.
If the city returns to local control, local politicians
and citizens groups can and probably will immediately and permanently put an end to any more outside influence or interest
by the state or "outsiders" by salting what few areas that are left to develop in the city with low income housing and
social service facilities. Since Camden is the most impoverished
city in America, and the constituency of Camden's local politicians are
impoverished, understandably this is and always has been the impetus and
direction
of local policy control, responding to constituent housing and social service
demands, unfortunately at the expense of the city's economic and social
development.
Visionary Real Estate developers Carl Dranoff and Yaromir
Steiner, who have demonstrated strong commitment and the will to take great
risks in betting on the future of Camden should have a strong say in the city's
future in immediate talks with Gov. Corzine.
The Dream Team
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Howard Husock,
Camden Dept. of Housing and Social Policy
Howard Husock is the Vice President of Programs and the Director of the Manhattan Institute's Social Entrepreneurship Initiative.
His work has appeared in periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal, Public Interest, The New York Times, Policy Review, and Reason. In 1999, Husock co-authored the study "Keeping Kalamazoo Competitive" for the City of Portgage, Michigan, an examination of proposed tax-based sharing and urban growth boundaries for the Kalamazoo metro area.
Husock has been a speaker at housing and urban policy forums sponsored by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the Massachusetts Department of Communities and Development, and the Urban Development Institute.
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at The John F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The former Director of
the Harvard KSG Case Program, he has published widely on housing and social policy
issues, and has written or edited more than 700 case studies on public and
non-profit sector issues. He is a contributing editor of City Journal,
and author of America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of
American Housing Policy, as well as a book-length study Repairing the
Ladder: Toward a New Housing Policy Paradigm. He has served as a faculty
member at case method workshops at Tsinghua University (Beijing), United Nations
Staff College (Turin, Italy) National Defense University (United States),
National University of Singapore; ESADE (School of Administration and Business
Development, Barcelona); UPC (Peruvian University of Applied Sciences), Lima;
New Public Administration Initiative (South Africa); University of Chile
(Santiago). A former journalist and documentary filmmaker for WGBH-TV, Boston,
his work has won three Emmy awards. He holds a BA from Boston University and in
1989 was a Fellow at the Media Studies Project, Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars. From 1981 to1982 he was a Mid-Career Fellow at the Woodrow
Wilson School, Princeton.
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Biography
Before joining the Woodrow Wilson School faculty, Anthony Shorris served as Deputy Chancellor for Operations and Policy at the New York City Board of Education, the nation’s largest school system. Shorris has more than 25 years of experience in public and non-profit management. He was appointed by the Mayor as New York City’s Commissioner of Finance and its Deputy Budget Director, as well as by two Governors as the First Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the nation’s oldest and largest public authority.
In the non-profit sector he has served as executive
vice-president and chief operating officer of a billion-dollar health care
organization operating in New York and Pennsylvania, as well as chairing the
boards of organizations focused on areas as diverse as leadership
development, prisoner pre-entry, and the delivery of local social services.
He has consulted on management and policy issues for national and international
foundations and non-profit organizations on topics including education, public
finance, health care, tax policy, economic development, housing, and
infrastructure. He holds a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow
Wilson School.
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Robert D. Putnam
Creating Social Capital for Residents, Instituting Regional Impact Council as called for in Camden Municipal Rehabilitation Act
is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of
Public Policy at Harvard, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate
courses. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the
He has written a dozen books, translated into seventeen languages, including the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, and more recently Better Together: Restoring the American Community, a study of promising new forms of social connectedness. His previous book, Making Democracy Work, was praised by the Economist as "a great work of social science, worthy to rank alongside de Tocqueville, Pareto and Weber." Both Making Democracy Work and Bowling Alone rank high among the most cited publications in the social sciences worldwide in the last several decades.
Putnam has worked on these themes with both the Clinton and Bush White Houses, as well as with the Blair Government, the Irish Taoiseach, and other political leaders and grassroots civic activists around the world. He founded the Saguaro Seminar, bringing together leading thinkers and practitioners to develop actionable ideas for civic renewal.
His earlier work included research on
comparative political elites, Italian politics, and globalization. Before coming
to Harvard in 1979, he taught at the
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Michael E. Porter
Director of Competitive Strategies for Camden, New Jersey
Camden must compete with every municipality in the Delaware Valley ( including Pennsylvania and Delaware ) for residents and businesses. Camden cannot renew without offering potential industries, companies, entrepreneurs, craftsmen, artists and residents a advantage that other areas cannot.
| The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, led by Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, studies competition and its implications for company strategy; the competitiveness of nations, regions and cities; and solutions to social problems. Based at Harvard Business School, the Institute is dedicated to extending the research pioneered by Professor Porter and disseminating it to scholars and practitioners on a global basis. |  |
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Kimberly Camp
For consideration as Camden Director of Arts and Cultural Attractions
| Camden-born Kimberly Camp calls herself "a starter and a fixer." After starting The Experimental Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and opening the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, the 50-year-old artist and museum administrator is back in her fixing mode. |  |
| Seven years ago, Camp became executive
director and chief executive officer of the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa. "I'm a change agent," notes Camp in her sunny office surrounded by art treasures. Despite the controversies swirling around her, Camp radiates confidence and serenity. "I've had some very interesting people put opportunities in my lap and encourage me to run with them. Here at the Barnes Foundation, I'm trying to dispel misconceptions, heal old wounds and build a different image." |
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James Howard Kunstler
As Resident Iconoclast, Urbanist, Architectural Critic, Philosopher, Insightful Visionary and Director of Communications for the City of Camden.
Author
of
The Long Emergency
The Geography of Nowhere
Home From Nowhere
and other books
A brilliant and colorful character, just the kind of person needed to present, excite and energize Camden's potential in the new era. Just the anti-establishment, anti-stuffed shirt the city needs to show this is not going to be just another boiler-plate bound round of another nowhere renewal plan. Kunstler would surely attract the interests of Urban Pioneers and the creative types and counter-culture intelligentsia that has proved to be a corner-stone of "comeback cities."
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Jon Van Til
To Chair a "Transition to Self-Rule and Political Stability" Committee.
Dr. Van Til is highly knowledgeable in the area of conflict resolution, and is the perfect candidate to mediate and coordinate the transfer of power from the State of New Jersey to a revived City of Camden government, after the above "Blue Ribbon" panel has successfully executed a urban design, social and economic development plan for the city.
Dr.
Van Til is
Professor of Urban Studies and Community Planning at
He received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1970 from the University of California (Berkeley), his M.A in Sociology in 1963 from the University of California, and his B.A (with high Honors) in Political Science in 1961 from Swarthmore College. On graduating from Swarthmore, he was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Van Til has held faculty positions at Purdue University and Swarthmore College, and chaired the Urban Studies Department at Rutgers-Camden from 1974 to 1986, where he was a co-founder of the graduate program in public administration. He served as Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Law and Justice Institute from 1972 to 1974. Currently he directs the innovative Rutgers-Camden program in Citizenship and Service Education.
Professor Van Til's recent books include Critical Issues in American Philosophy (1990), Mapping The Third Sector: Voluntarism in a Changing Social Economy (1988), Nonprofit Boards of Directors (co-edited with Robert Herman, 1988), Shifting the Debate: Public/Private Sector Relations in The Modern Welfare State (co-edited with Susan Ostrander and Stuart Langton, 1987).
Earlier books include Leaders and Followers: Challenges For the Future (co- edited with Trudy Heller and Louis Zurcher, 1986), Living With Energy Shortfall (1982), International Perspectives on Voluntary Action Research (1981), and Privilege in America: An End To Inequality? 1973).
He served as Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (formerly the Journal of Voluntary Action Research) from 1978 through 1992. He was twice elected President of the Association of Voluntary Action Scholars, and is the founding Board Chair of the Center for Nonprofit Corporations (Trenton). Recently he was named a Trustee of the George H. Gallup International Institute.
Professor Van Til writes a regular column in the leading trade magazine Nonprofit Times, and has published in such scholarly journals as Social Work, Transaction/Society, and the Urban Affairs Quarterly. He was honored by Arnova in 1994 by the receipt of its Career Award for Distinguished Research and Service.
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