The Fourth Regional Plan was created under the leadership of
Scott Rechler, Chair, Regional Plan Association
Rohit T. Aggarwala, Chair, Committee on the Fourth Regional Plan
Thomas Wright, President & CEO, Regional Plan Association
The development of the fourth plan was overseen by
Christopher Jones, Senior Vice President and Chief Planner, Regional Plan Association
Juliette Michaelson, Executive Vice President, Regional Plan Association
Analysis and policy development for the fourth plan was undertaken by RPA’s research team.
Values
Pierina Ana Sanchez, Mandu Sen, Robert Freudenberg
Fix the institutions that are failing us
Lead researchers: Christopher Jones and Juliette Michaelson
With contributions from: Richard Barone, Ellis Calvin, Robert Freudenberg, Moses Gates, Melissa Kaplan-Macey, Sarabrent McCoy, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Mandu Sen, Sarah Serpas, Kate Slevin and Julia Vitullo-Martin
Create a dynamic, customer-oriented transportation system
Lead researchers: Richard Barone, Vice President for Transportation, and Jeffrey M. Zupan, Peter W. Herman Chair for Transportation
With contributions from: Allison Henry, Robert Lane, Alyssa Pichardo, Emily Roach, Kate Slevin, and Jackson Whitmore
Rise to the challenge of climate change
Lead researcher: Robert Freudenberg, Vice President for Energy & Environment
With contributions from: Ellis Calvin, Emily Korman, Lucrecia Montemayor, and Sarabrent McCoy
Make the region affordable for everyone
Lead researcher: Moses Gates, Director of Community Planning & Design
With contributions from: Vanessa Barrios, Melissa Kaplan-Macey, Robert Lane, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Mandu Sen, Sarah Serpas, Kate Slevin, and Renae Widdison
Places
Lead designer: Robert Lane, Senior Fellow for Community Design
Lead researcher: Kate Slevin, Vice President for State Programs & Advocacy
With contributions from: Richard Barone, Robert Freudenberg, Moses Gates, Melissa Kaplan-Macey, and Pierina Ana Sanchez
This document and the accompanying website were designed by Ben Oldenburg and Hyperakt.
Creating the fourth plan also involved help from: Tess Andrew, Kellen Cantrell, Chasity Cooper, Christine Hsu, Christina Kata, Wendy Pollack, Dani Simons, Emily Thenhaus, and the entire RPA team.
The Fourth Regional Plan has been made possible by
Major support from
Ford Foundation
The JPB Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
Additional grants from
Albert W. & Katharine E. Merck Charitable Fund
Anonymous
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Durst Organization
Edison Properties
Fairfield County’s Community Foundation
Fund for the City of New York
The Oram Foundation: Fund for the Environment & Urban Life
Google, Inc.
Howard & Abby Milstein Foundation
J. M. Kaplan Fund
Leon Lowenstein Foundation
Lily Auchincloss Foundation
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The New York Community Trust
Rauch Foundation
Siemens USA
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
TransitCenter
Verizon Communications
Volvo Research & Educational Foundations
We thank all our donors for their generous support of our work.
Partner organizations
A special thanks to our non-profit and academic partners who work with us to create a more equitable and sustainable tri-state region.
Alliance for Downtown New York
American Littoral Society
Association for a Better New York
Association for Neighborhood Housing & Development
Bike Tarrytown
Bridgeport Neighborhood Trust
Bronx River Alliance
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
Business Council of Fairfield County
Center for an Urban Future
Citizens Budget Commission
Community Service Society of New York
Community Voices Heard
East Coast Greenway Alliance
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy, Rutgers University
Enterprise Community Partners
Environmental Defense Fund
ERASE Racism
Fair Housing Justice Center
Friends of Hudson River Park
Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy, New York University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Columbia University
Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
Hester Street Collaborative
Housing & Community Development Network of New Jersey
Hudson River Waterfront Conservancy
Hudson Valley Rail Trail
Ironbound Community Corporation
La Casa de Don Pedro
Land Use Law Center, Pace University
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Long Island Housing Partnership
Make the Road Connecticut
Make the Road New York
Merritt Parkway Trail Alliance
Motor Parkway East
Municipal Art Society
National Association of City Transportation Officials
Natural Areas Conservancy
Natural Resources Defense Council
New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
New Jersey Future
New Jersey Highlands Council
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New York - New Jersey Trail Conference
New York Academy of Medicine
New York Building Congress
New York Communities for Change
New York Housing Conference
New York League of Conservation Voters
Newark Alliance
Newark Regional Business Partnership
NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign
Open House New York
Open Space Institute
Orange County Land Trust
Partnership for New York City
Partnership for Strong Communities
Pattern for Progress
People Friendly Stamford
PlaceWorks
Pratt Center for Community Development
Project for Public Spaces
Riders Alliance
Right to the City
Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, New York University
Scenic Hudson
Science & Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay
Shawangunk Valley Conservancy
SUNY New Paltz
The Harbor Ring
The Nature Conservancy - New York
Time of Day Media
Tishman Environment & Design Center, The New School
TransitCenter
Transportation Alternatives
Tri-State Transportation Campaign
Trust for Public Land
Upper Manhattan Empowerment
Zone
Urban Justice Center
Vision Long Island
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
World Bank
The Milstein Forums on New York's Future
We are grateful for the intellectual input provided via the Milstein Forums on New York's Future. Participants included:
Rohit Aggarwala
David Armour
Richard Bagger
Larry Belinsky
Anthony Borelli
Tonio Burgos
Armando Carbonell
Anthony Coscia
Andrew Farkas
Michael Fascitelli
Patrick Foye
Jerry Gottesman
Gary Hack
Leo Hindery
David Klinges
Jay Kriegel
Tom Madison
Marvin Markus
Howard Milstein
Angela Pinsky
Seth Pinsky
John Porcari
Richard Ravitch
Scott Rechler
Ed Rendell
Lucius Riccio
Denise Richardson
Marc Ricks
Stephen Ross
Lynne Sagalyn
Elliot Sander
Rob Schiffer
Samuel Schwartz
Jim Simpson
Jeffrey Stewart
Marilyn Jordan Taylor
Bill Thompson
Julia Vitullo-Martin
Thomas Wright
Bob Yaro
Staff
Creating this plan would not have been possible without the incredible dedication and passion of the RPA team over the last five years.
STAFF
Tessa Andrew
Ana Baptista
Richard Barone
Vanessa Barrios
Alex Belensz
Maya Borgenicht
Dare Brawley
Ellis Calvin
Lilly Chin
Jane Cooke
Chasity Cooper
Brian Dennis
Jim Finch
Robert Freudenberg
Moses Gates
Ricardo Gotla
Allison Henry
Christine Hsu
Rossana Ivanova
Doneliza Joaquin
Christopher Jones
Melissa Kaplan-Macey
Christina Kata
Amanda Kennedy
Amie Kershbaum
David Kooris
Emily Korman
Kyle Kozar
Robert Lane
David Lee
Sharai Lewis-Gruss
Mark Lohbauer
Alex Marshall
Sarabrent McCoy
Courtenay Mercer
Juliette Michaelson
Lucrecia Montemayor
Ben Oldenburg
Howard Permut
Corey Piasecki
Alyssa Pichardo
Robert Pirani
Wendy Pollack
Emily Roach
Nicolas Ronderos
David Sabatino
Steven Salzgeber
Pierina Sanchez
Daniel Schned
Mandu Sen
Sarah Serpas
Sanjay Seth
Melat Seyoum
Janani Shankaran
Dani Simons
Kate Slevin
Roma Tejada
Emily Thenhaus
Petra Todorovich-Messick
Laura Tolkoff
Karen Trella
Julia Vitullo-Martin
Jackson Whitmore
Thomas Wright
Robert Yankana
Robert D. Yaro
Zachary Zeilman
Fiona Zhu
Jeffrey Zupan
INTERNS
Ahmad Abu-Khalaf
David Andrew
Kellan Cantrell
Corey Chao
Alex Chohlas-Wood
Dustin Fry
Noni Ghani
Crystal Godina
Dennis Harvey
Shahneez Haseeb
Adia Klein
Taylor LaFave
Zoe Linder-Baptie
Mariana Llano
Reva Marathe
Claire Mardian
Alexandra Moscovitz
Anna Oursler
David Perlmutter
Michael Phillips
Rebecca Ramsey
Ann Regan
David Young Shin
Samudyatha Subbarama
Eline Toes
Renae Widdison
Xinyun Wu
Xu Yuan