Key Individuals: Jerold Kayden, Douglas Woodward

Jerold S. Kayden
Founder and President, Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space

Jerold Kayden is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Founding Director of  the Master in Real Estate Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He previously served as co-chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and director of the Master in Urban Planning Program. An urban planner and lawyer, Professor Kayden is both scholar and practitioner. At Harvard, he teaches, conducts research, and writes about laws that shape the built environment, about the constitutional framework for land-use regulation, about the interaction of public and private actors and resources in urban development, and about the place of public space in society. His books include Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience; Urban Disaster Resilience: New Dimensions from International Practice in the Build Environment; Landmark Justice: The Influence of William J. Brennan on America’s Communities; and Zoning and the American Dream: Promises Still To Keep.

Outside of Harvard, Jerold Kayden has argued court cases, authored United States Supreme Court amicus briefs, and drafted land use and public space laws. He has worked with governments, private developers, and not-for-profit institutions in the United States and, internationally, in Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, China, and Nepal, among other countries. He has served as principal constitutional counsel to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Professor Kayden has won numerous awards, include a Guggenheim Fellowship. He founded Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space in 2002. After Harvard College, Law School, and Design School, he served as law clerk to Judge James Oakes of the United States S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice William Brennan of the United States Supreme Court. https://www.jeroldkayden.com/

 

Douglas Woodward
Senior Advisor, APOPS|MAS

Douglas Woodward is Adjunct Professor and Associate Director, Professional Development and Practice in the Urban Planning program, at Columbia University. His work as a planner and urban designer in New York has focused on complex multi-use projects in dense urban environments. He was Deputy Executive Director and Chief Administrative Officer at the Lincoln Center Development Project for the first redevelopment of Lincoln Center, where he managed the public review process and public space design for the $1.4 billion redevelopment of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the world’s largest performing arts center. He was subsequently Chief Planning Officer and Senior Director of Real Estate Development at the Lincoln Center Development Project in charge of entitlements, valuations, and the land use approvals process for the redevelopment of David Geffen Hall and other major campus projects.

Prior to his work at Lincoln Center, he worked as an urban designer at the Department of City Planning in New York, where his projects focused on master planning, major area-wide rezonings, and large-scale development, including master plans and rezonings for Columbus Circle, Lower Manhattan, Hudson Yards, and Times Square. While at City Planning, he founded the Office of the Chief Urban Designer with the late Lauren F. Otis. As Vice President for Design and Development at Edison Properties, he led the project to create new architectural design identities for Edison’s Manhattan Mini-Storage, Edison ParkFast and Workspace brands.

He has taught urban planning at Columbia since 1991. At Columbia, he coordinated Public Space in the Private Realm with Jerold Kayden, a six-school consortium of design and planning studios (Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, and the City University of New York) on the subject of privately owned public space, which was exhibited at the Van Alen Institute. In the aftermath of September 11, he directed the Lower Manhattan Recovery Studio at Columbia, working with downtown Community Board 1 and local residents. Recent studios include Reimagining Chinatown with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Councilmember Margaret Chin as clients; and a series of joint Architecture and Urban Planning studios with Richard Plunz as co-instructor, including Restructuring Quarto, with the Mayor of Genoa, Italy as the client, and three Puerto Rico-based joint studios: New Paradigms for a Resilient Vieques; Building Sovereign Systems: Empowering the People of Culebra; and Caribbean Reconnections: Plan and Implementation in Puerto Rico, with local governments and non-governmental organizations as clients. Other courses have included seminars and practicums on Ethnic Enclaves; Planning for a Green New Deal; Planning in the Cultural Space; Project Management; and Public Space in the Private Realm.

He is the co-author of Under the Elevated: Reclaiming Space, Connecting Communities (2015), a study of the potential of creating public space beneath elevated infrastructure.