Alexander Garvin, influential urban planner behind WTC redevelopment, has passed away in New York aged 80
Members of the architecture and urban planning communities are mourning the loss of Yale professor and influential New York city planner Alexander Garvin following the announcement of his death in Manhattan at the age of 80. A notoriously pedantic native New Yorker, Garvin earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale and served in the city government under mayors Lindsay, Beame, Koch, Giuliani, and Bloomberg after working as an architect in the offices of Phillip Johnson for a brief period of time. Garvin was behind some of the biggest urban planning projects in recent American memory. His noteworthy contributions to the county’s largest cities included the post-9/11 master plan for the World Trade Center site in Manhattan and the BeltLine development in Atlanta. Related on Archinect: After 9/11, a Tale of Two Cities: Eight Architects on the Changes New York Has Undergone in the Past Twenty YearsGarvin was also in charge of the development of New York’s unsuccessful b...
Members of the architecture and urban planning communities are mourning the loss of Yale professor and influential New York city planner Alexander Garvin following the announcement of his death in Manhattan at the age of 80.
A notoriously pedantic native New Yorker, Garvin earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale and served in the city government under mayors Lindsay, Beame, Koch, Giuliani, and Bloomberg after working as an architect in the offices of Phillip Johnson for a brief period of time.
Garvin was behind some of the biggest urban planning projects in recent American memory. His noteworthy contributions to the county’s largest cities included the post-9/11 master plan for the World Trade Center site in Manhattan and the BeltLine development in Atlanta.
Garvin was also in charge of the development of New York’s unsuccessful b...
