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 Mitchell
L. Moss is the Henry Hart Rice Professor Urban
Policy and Planning at
New York
University
's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He served as Director of NYU's
Taub
Urban
Research
Center
from 1987 to 2003 where he directed research projects for the National
Science Foundation, Charles Revson Foundation, U.S. Department of
Commerce,
New York
State Economic Development Corporation, and leading private corporations.
Professor Moss has been on the faculty of NYU
since 1973 and served as Chairman of The Interactive Telecommunications
Program in the
Tisch
School
of the Arts from 1981-83. He was voted "Best Teacher of the Year" by
Wagner
School
students in 2002.
Moss's
essays have been published in The New York Times, San Francisco
Chronicle, New York Post, New York Daily News, Newsday, and The
New Yor Observer. He has appeared on ABC's World News Tonight, The
Today Show, Hardball, and the NBC Nightly News. In 2001, he served
as an advisor to the mayoral campaign of Michael R. Bloomberg. He is
a member of the Steering Committee of the Association for a Better
New York, the Advisory Board of the
Taubman
Center
at Harvard
University
and the Advisory Committee of the Neighborhood Economic Development
Advocacy Project. He has chaired the City of
New York
's Neighborhood Business Awards Committee since 2003.
Professor
Moss received his B.A. from
Northwestern
University
where he was elected to DERU, the men's honorary society; M.A.
from the
University
of
Washington
, and Ph.d from the
University
of
Southern California
.
In Recent News
- "Mike Bloomberg is probably going to be more important and
more influential out of office than in office. Instead of
trying to improve conditions in New York's five boroughs, he's
going to be looking at the five continents of the world." Business
Week.
- "Money goes to power and New York is still the center of
money." The
Financial Times
- "Democrats in New York city were thrilled by the news- but
they are about to find out that Mr. Bruno was their best friend in
Albany, and life without him won't be easy." - The
New York Times
- "The World Trade Center site is so complex because of the
infrastructure that runs underneath it and the requirements for
rebuilding that no one should be surprised that the commercial
development and the memorial will take longer than originally
anticipated." - The
New York Times, City Room Blog
- "The city depends on the free flow of people, ideas, goods
and money. Any effort to impose protectionism hurts
us." -
The New York Times
- "Everybody in Albany learned that this guy [David Paterson]
is very serious. He had the facts and he had the willingness
to go hand-to-hand. The state and the horse racing industry
couldn't risk it." - AM
New York
- "There's always going to be people who confuse ownership
with identity." - Newsday
- "Disaster recovery is a growing business." - Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette
- "Places like Red Hook that were once a no-man's land are
hipster havens, and Brooklyn is now a center for culture and art
for the whole country. Whoever thought people would want to
live on the Gowanus." - Newsday
- "Now is the time to accelerate those project and help prop
up a weak economy. This city is still a very powerful
economy, and we're able to absorb these shocks. This is a
resilient city - nothing stops New York." - Daily
News
- "It's not in the mayor's DNA to be the No. 2. Some
people are born to bridesmaid, and some people are born to be
captain." - New
York Post
- "Take transportation; politics encourages big ideas but not
the wherewithal to pay for them. As a result, we have lots
of project that are able to get a few million dollars for planning
and design work, but not enough to ever bet built." - New
York Times
- "I think Mr. Spitzer's fate from here on in is going to be
working with the officials in law enforcement to make sure he
doesn't have to spend any time in a penitentiary." - Bloomberg.com
- "Americans are very tolerant of the sex lives of their
leaders. This was not a romantic relationship-- but one
involving a criminal enterprise." - Newsday
- "The dilemma is we need to be prudent, and part of the
problem is that every politician has their favorite project.
The political system has encouraged a large number of projects to
enter the planning and design phase, but not enough to get to the
implementation phase. There is a need to recognize that we
have to pick the project that are a high priority rather than let
a thousand flowers bloom." - NY
Sun
- "He may not be running for office, but everyone who runs
for office is going to be coming and listening to Mike
Bloomberg." - NY1
News
- "Voice communications have been critical to the development
of New York City as a center for ideas, information, and
culture. Just as the city's ice-free natural harbot led to
the rise of trade and commerce, the telephone has shaped New York
City's emergence as a global hub for the flow of information in,
through and out of the city." - from New
York Talk Exchange
- "[Harry Macklowe] was willing to pay the hefty $1.4 billion
price because he'd already come up with the idea for the Apple
store- a move that Mitchell Moss calls 'one of the best
examples of real estate ingenuity in the city." - from CNNMoney.com
- "Overall, Clinton is still ahead in the New York race, but
her lead is slipping. A little drop can bring serious
consequences, because unlike the Republicans, the Democrats do not
have a winner-take-all system." - from National
Public Radio
- "We have 9/11 fatigue in the United States." in The
Politico
- "The Mayor really is king of New York." in the Washington
Monthly
- "The mere fact that two major media companies [News
Corporation and Conde Naste] are willing to relocate to the Hudson
Yards is an indication of how strong New York is a global provider
of information." in The Real Deal
- "While the Federal Management Agency has been strengthened
since Hurricane Katrina when it failed to meet the needs of the
Gulf Coast, and FEMA's improvements were evident in the response
to the California wildfires, the underlying federal disaster
response system is still in need of reform." in The
San Francisco Chronicle
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