Alan Anthony Altshuler (born March 9, 1936, in Brooklyn) is an American

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and government official. Altshuler is the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor in Urban Policy and Planning, Emeritus, at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the

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Career

Altshuler received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago. Altshuler became the first director of the Boston Transportation Planning Review in 1970, and from 1971 through 1975, he served as the inaugural Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation. Since 1988, Altshuler has been director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and until 1998, director of the Ford Foundation Program on Innovations in American Government. Altshuler has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University, as well as serving as dean at both the New York University

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and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. At Harvard, Altshuler also served as founding director of the

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from 2000 to 2004.

Works

*''The City Planning Process: A Political Analysis'', 1970, *''Community Control: The Black Demand for Participation in Large American Cities'', 1970, *''The Urban Transportation System: Politics and Policy Innovation'', 1979, *''The Future of the Automobile: The Report of MIT's International Automobile Program'', 1985, *''Regulation for Revenue: The Political Economy of Land Use Exactions'', with Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez and Arnold M. Howitt, 1993, *''Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America'', 1999, *''Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment'', with David Luberoff, 2003,

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External links

Harvard profile
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