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Andy Wiley-Schwartz

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Andy Wiley-Schwartz is a Vice President at PPS and director of the Transportation Program. Andy supervises and coordinates PPS’s key transportation projects, including DOT training programs, corridor management projects, main street and downtown street enhancement, traffic calming and bicycle/pedestrian projects. He specializes in helping communities rebuild their neighborhoods and cities by leveraging transportation funding into the development of public spaces, including streets and other transportation facilities, in part by focusing on strategic partnerships and programming.

Andy’s current projects include PPS’s New Jersey Smart Choices program: an outreach, education and training program to help municipalities plan and make sustainable land use decisions in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Transportation. He is also working with the Times Square Alliance in New York City, the City of Elmira, NY to revitalize the area under and around a railroad viaduct downtown, and advising the City of Indianapolis on their plan to build a “Cultural Trail” through their central business district.

An engaging speaker and storyteller, Andy has led many PPS tours and How to Turn a Place Around training workshops, including a 2002 program to train US Forest Service grantees building living memorials to those who perished in the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster. He has moderated numerous panels and delivered keynote talks and other presentations for elected officials, downtown organizations, transportation agencies and regional planning agencies. In addition to his training and project work, Andy has conducted in-depth research into park partnerships, transportation facility development, public space programming and downtown and neighborhood revitalization programs.

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

Recent Speaking Engagements

November 14, 2006: Panel Discussion: The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City, The Urban Center, NY, NY.

June 15, 2006: Atlantic Yards, Can it work for Brooklyn? Municipal Arts Society Presentation Panelist. Brooklyn NY

June 6, 2006: Indianapolis Cultural Trail Best Practices in Multiuse Trail Design, Indianapolis, IN

May 17, 2006 "Great Public Spaces: Grand Central and Beyond" Moderator, The Urban Center, NY, NY

April 26, 2006 Creating Great Public Spaces, The Community is the Expert. KEYNOTE ADDRESS, Elmira Downtown Development Annual Meeting. Elmira, NY
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Recent Feature Articles

New York Times Magazine, June 25, 2006. "A Slow-Road Movement?" By Robert Sullivan, pg. 17

Dwell, September 2006. Transportation Perpetual Motion Vol. 1 By Robert Sullivan

Recent Publications

"The Smile Index", in The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st Century City. Rutherford Platt, editor, University of Massachusetts Press, 2006

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