About:

Ron Shiffman, FAICP, is the former director of the Pratt Center for Community Development, which he co-founded in 1964. A city planner with nearly four decades of experience, he is also a professor at Pratt's Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment where he's currently teaching a course in Advocacy Planning. He has received "numerous awards from community based organizations, national advocacy groups including local and national awards from ADPSR [Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility], the local chapters of the AIA and AICP, the Municipal Art Society and he has authored a number of articles on urban planning, social justice and community economic development. He has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners [AICP] since May 1985 and in April 2002 became a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners."  (source: Columbia Web site below)
 

Books:

Shiffman, Ron.Comprehensive and integrative planning for community development.  Community Development Research Center, Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School for Social Research, 1990. (Available at Hunter College).
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Books listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Articles:

"The West Side plan is less than Olympian; The administration proposal is more short-term deal than long-term, cogent development strategy," Newsday (New York), June 7, 2005 Tuesday,  Pg. A35, 720 words, BY RON SHIFFMAN. (available full text in Lexis Nexis).

[Interview] with Ron Shiffman
Shiffman, Ron.; Bressi, Todd W., Places, vol.12, no.2, pp.52-59, Winter 1999.
Note: The American city planner's thoughts on advocacy planning.(Avery Index)
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Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Web Sites:

Pratt Center for Community Development.   www.prattcenter.net/
The center "supports community-based organizations in their efforts to improve neighborhood quality of life, attack the causes of poverty and inequality, and advance sustainable development."

Columbia University. www.columbia.edu/cu/revson/dinner/speakers02-03/speakerProfile/shiffman/shiffman.html
Biography of Ron Shiffman.

The Hindu, India's online newspaper. www.hinduonnet.com/lf/2004/02/14/stories/2004021409780200.htm
An article on Ron Shiffman's introduction of the concept of community-based sustainable development to local architects.
 
 

Judy Connorton
October 2005