Background
Altshuler, Alan Anthony was born on March 9, 1936 in Brooklyn. Son of Leonard M. and Janet A. (Sonnenstrahl) Altshuler.
( A new shape for the world auto industry emerges from th...)
A new shape for the world auto industry emerges from this far-ranging study, which reveals a path of development quite different from those widely forecast and leaves no doubt that the changes ahead will be dramatic.Cited by Business Week as one of 1984's ten best books on business and economics, The Future of the Automobile is the most comprehensive assessment ever conducted of the world's largest industry. It is a collaborative study by leading researchers and industry experts in Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States that covers the industry at the firm level and at the global level. It projects the composition of the industry 20 years hence, estimates long-term demand for the product, focuses on the growing cooperation between producers on individual models even as overall competition in the industry intensifies, and reveals alternative paths for industrial relations.Alan Altshuler is Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration at New York University. Daniel Roos is Director of the Center for Transportation Studies and Professor of Civil Engineering at MIT where Martin Anderson and James Womack also teach. Daniel Jones teaches at the University of Sussex.
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(Despite commuter complaints and some genuine hardship for...)
Despite commuter complaints and some genuine hardship for those without ready access to automobiles, the American system of urban transportation is a resounding success from the standpoint of the vast majority of urban residents. Nor are any developments on the horizon, such as oil shortages, likely to threaten the pattern of auto-dominance. There has been rapidly growing concern in recent years, however, about specific problems associated with the system—most notably, its high energy requirements, its air pollution effects, its high fatality rates, and its equity consequences. There is also wide disillusion with the main traditional instruments of urban transportation policy, expensive highway and mass transit investments. Thus public officials find themselves under intense pressure to ameliorate the "problems" of urban transportation, but simultaneously constrained to do so in ways that are unobtrusive from the standpoint of the average traveler, that avoid community disruption, and that entail minimal new budgetary requirements. These are a few of the conclusions reached by Alan Altshuler in The Urban Transportation System, a comprehensive and original examination of the factors that have shaped the U.S. urban transportation system and of innovative options available to today's policy makers. Because it offers both a systematic, multidisciplinary analysis of the problems and available alternatives in urban transportation, and a political analysis of the ways in which policy makers actually choose among options, the book will interest students of American politics, policy and analysis, and the interplay of technology and policy, as well as researchers and policy makers whose concerns center on the urban transportation system itself. Part I reviews the postwar history of urban transportation policy and advances a set of propositions about how to rank potential innovations with reference to political feasibility. Part II examines the criteria by which both critics and defenders of the urban transportation system seem to evaluate it. It then devotes separate chapters to the six main "problems" on which critics of the system focus: energy, air pollution, safety, equity, congestion, and urban sprawl. Each of these chapters examines the nature of the problem and of public controversy about it, and appraises the likely cost-effectiveness of the most plausible strategies for dealing with it. Part III focuses on eight broad policy categories, asking which appear to combine in high degree both political feasibility and cost-effectiveness re the main problems of urban transportation. The options examined include highway capacity expansion, fixed route transit service expansion, demand responsive transit, private ride-sharing, traffic management techniques giving preference to high occupancy vehicles, performance standard regulation of the auto manufacturers, direct consumer regulation, and price disincentives intended to curtail auto travel and/or gasoline consumption. Reporting in the Wall Street Journal on this new study, Alan L. Otten describes it as a "fact-jammed, tightly argued" analysis whose conclusions "fly in the face of conventional wisdom." Similarly Edwin Diamond, writing in Esquire, has noted that "Altshuler upsets most conventional wisdom. His practical experience enables him to look at the road ahead without undue romanticism about a landscape long-since passed. The Urban Transportation System is included in the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies Series and in the MIT Press Transportation Studies Series.
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(Cited by Business Week as one of 1984's ten best books on...)
Cited by Business Week as one of 1984's ten best books on business and economics, The Future of the Automobile is the most comprehensive assessment ever conducted of the world's largest industry.
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( Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, t...)
Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in and around major American cities has received little scholarly attention. In MEGA-PROJECTS, Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff analyze the unprecedented wave of large-scale (mega-) public investments that occurred in American cities during the 1950s and 1960s; the social upheavals they triggered, which derailed large numbers of projects during the late 1960s and early 1970s; and the political impulses that have shaped a new generation of urban mega-projects in the decades since. They also appraise the most important consequences of policy shifts over this half-century and draw out common themes from the rich variety of programmatic and project developments that they chronicle. The authors integrate narratives of national as well as state and local policymaking, and of mobilization by (mainly local) project advocates, with a profound examination of how well leading theories of urban politics explain the observed realities. The specific cases they analyze include a wide mix of transportation and downtown revitalization projects, drawn from numerous regions —most notably Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Portland, and Seattle. While their original research focuses on highway, airport, and rail transit programs and projects, they draw as well on the work of others to analyze the politics of public investment in urban renewal, downtown retailing, convention centers, and professional sports facilities. In comparing their findings with leading theories of urban and American politics, Altshuler and Luberoff arrive at some surprising findings about which perform best and also reveal some important gaps in the literature as a whole. In a concluding chapter, they examine the potential effects of new fiscal pressures, business mobilization to relax environmental constraints, and security concerns in the wake of September 11. And they make clear their own views about how best to achieve a balance between developmental, environmental, and democratic values in public investment decisionmaking. Integrating fifty years of urban development history with leading theories of urban and American politics, MEGA-PROJECTS provides significant new insights into urban and intergovernmental politics.
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government official Professor of Urban Policy
Altshuler, Alan Anthony was born on March 9, 1936 in Brooklyn. Son of Leonard M. and Janet A. (Sonnenstrahl) Altshuler.
Bachelor, Cornell Univercity, 1957; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1961.
He was the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Harvard University"s John F. Kennedy School of Government from which position he retired in 2013. However he is still Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He became the first director of the Boston Transportation Planning Review in 1970, appointed by Governor Frank Sargent.
From 1971 to 1975, Altshuler served as Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation, also under Governor Sargent.
Altshuler has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, served as Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration at New York University. He is a graduate of Cornell University and received his doctorate from the University of Chicago.
In 1988, Altshuler was named the founding Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard Kennedy School, a position he held from 1988 to 2004. During part of that time he also served as the school"s founding Director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, from 2000 to 2004.
Altshuler was named Interim Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in July 2004 and then Dean in December 2004.
He remained in the position until January 1, 2008 when Mohsen Mostafavi was appointed to succeed him. During his three and one-half years at the helm of GSD, he doubled the number of senior women faculty, increased financial aid for master"s students, and significantly improved the GSD"s finances.
(Despite commuter complaints and some genuine hardship for...)
( A new shape for the world auto industry emerges from th...)
(Cited by Business Week as one of 1984's ten best books on...)
( Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, t...)
( Innovation does happen—even in government! Despite all ...)
(City Planning Process, The: A Political Analysis, by Alts...)
Member National Academy Public Administration, American Political Science Association, American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Julie C. Maller, June 15, 1958. Children: Jennifer, David.