Ronald Shiffman
Ronald Shiffman is a Brooklyn-based city planner, architect, professor, and author. In 1964 Ron Shiffman co-founded the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development (PICCED) now known as the Pratt Center for Community Development (PCCD) – the nation's largest, public interest architectural, planning and community development office in the country. In 1965 working with the Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council and Sen.
Ronald Shiffman
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- Ronald Shiffman
- Born
- 1937
- Birthplace
- Mandatory Palestine
- Occupation
- Urban planner, architect
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Kennedy he helped to conceive and launch the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation one of the nation's first community development corporations. In the early-1970s working with members of the AIA he established within PICCED the Pratt Architectural Collaborative a public interest architectural and design service that assisted low and moderate-income communities. He is recognized as one of the founders of the community-based development movement as well as the community design movement in America and was one of the organizers of what today is known as the Association of Community Design Centers.
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• Name — Ronald Shiffman • Born — 1937 • Birthplace — Mandatory Palestine • Occupation — Urban planner, architect
Selected publications
• 1967: "The Imperative of Deghettoization: An Answer to Piven and Cloward," Social Work, 1967, pp. 5–11, with Clarence Funnye. • 1976: "Perspective VII," Journal of Architectural Education 30(2), 1976, p. 16. • 1990: Comprehensive and integrative planning for community development, Community Development Research Center, Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School for Social Research, 1990, with Susan Motley. • 1994: "The New Urbanism, the Newer, and the Old," in Places Journal 9(2), 1994, pp. 91–92, with Andres Duany and Susana Torre. • 1995: "Urban Poverty: The Global Phenomenon of Poverty and Social Marginalization in Our Cities; Facts and Strategies," 1995. • 1999: "Aesthetics, Demographics and Cohesion," Perspecta, 1999, pp. 76–83, with Kate Winter, Denise Scott Brown, Alan Plattus, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Fred Koetter, and Stephen Kieran. • 1999: "Facts on the Ground," Perspecta, 1999, pp. 106–111, with Kate Winter, Denise Scott Brown, Alan Plattus, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Fred Koetter, and Stephen Kieran. • 1999: "Public and Private Space," Perspecta, 1999, pp. 92–97, with Kate Winter, Denise Scott Brown, Alan Plattus, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Fred Koetter, and Stephen Kieran. • 2010: "Beyond Green Jobs: Seeking a New Paradigm," in What We See, New York: New Village, 2010, pp. 297–305. • 2012: "Occupying Dissent: A Conversation with Maya Wiley," in Beyond Zuccotti Park, New York: New Village, 2012, pp. 112–124. • 2012: "Developing the Public Realm: A Conversation with Jonathan Rose," in Beyond Zuccotti Park, New York: New Village, 2012, pp. 364–370. • 2012: "Programming Public Space: A Conversation with Carlton Brown," in Beyond Zuccotti Park, New York: New Village, 2012, pp. 371–382, with Anastassia Fisyak. • 2012: "A Call for Actions," in Beyond Zuccotti Park, New York: New Village, 2012, pp. 382–386, with Jeffrey Hou.
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• 1998: Lewis Mumford Award in Development from ADPSR • 2007: Sam Ratensky Award from the New York City chapter of AIA • 2012: Jane Jacobs Medal for Life-Time Achievement from the Rockefeller Foundation • 2013: Planning Pioneer Award from the American Planning Association
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