WHO WE ARE

Andrew Wiley Schwartz
Director of Research and Publications

Andy Schwartz is a project manager at Project for Public Spaces specializing in writing and research. For the past four years, he has been responsible for product development, editing, research, and writing for PPS, and the Urban Parks Institute, a program of Project for Public Spaces.

Andy was the editor of How to Turn a Place Around (2000), PPS's acclaimed primer on community planning and revitalization. In 1999 and 2000, Andy directed the research and edited Public Parks, Private Partners: How Partnerships are Revitalizing Urban Parks (2000). The book explores how the
public and private sectors have joined together in new and innovative ways around urban parks, greenways, and other open spaces, from small friends groups to large conservancies. It also provides in-depth profiles of 16 of these organizations, describing how they were formed, what hurdles they faced, and how they work with their public sector counterparts to create
better parks and open space amenities in their regions. Andy was also chief writer and editor of How Transportation and Community Partnerships Are Shaping America, Part I: Transit (1999), and editor of Part II Streets and Roads (2001).

As research director at PPS, Andy has been interviewing people across the country who are seeking to rebuild their neighborhoods and cities through the development of public spaces. He has edited and compiled this research
into a library of successful practices from presentations and interviews with mayors, chiefs of police, university professors, city parks directors, transportation officials, community development organizations and many others, and has turned the resulting thousands of pages of transcripts and interviews into several books that document their efforts to revitalize cities.

In the field, Andy has served as an advisor to the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy's Management Plan effort for Schenley, Highland, Frick, and Riverview Parks. He has also worked on projects in Morningside Park and at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, and in Eastern Market, Detroit, Michigan, among others, conducting interviews, observations and surveys, and editing reports and presentations.

Prior to working at PPS, Andy was a political analyst for Washington Analysis Corporation, an investment research firm, where he wrote and commented on political affairs and the impact of trade, monetary, and domestic policy on the financial markets. He has been a guest analyst on CNBC and The Nightly Business Report, and has appeared in Forbes, Business Week, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other publications.

Education
Hampshire College, Bachelor of Arts