"When I think about cities, I think about people. Cities are fundamentally about people, and where people go and where people meet are at the core of what makes a city work."
As New York’s chief city planner under the Bloomberg administration, Amanda Burden led revitalization of some of the city's most familiar features - from the High Line to the Brooklyn waterfront. More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it’s the city’s great public spaces - from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades - where people can stroll and play. Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city’s newest public spaces, drawing on her experience as, surprisingly, an animal behaviorist. She shares the unexpected challenges of planning parks people love - and why it's important.
