2024-05-23T00:46:57-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150291788/alexander-garvin-influential-urban-planner-behind-wtc-redevelopment-has-passed-away-in-new-york-aged-80 Josh Niland 2021-12-21T13:45:00-05:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/aa/aa77197fbccd949ed64d91200d502e13.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Members of the architecture and urban planning communities are mourning the loss of <a href="https://archinect.com/yale" target="_blank">Yale</a> professor and influential New York city planner Alexander Garvin following the announcement of his death in Manhattan at the age of 80.</p> <p>A notoriously pedantic native New Yorker, Garvin earned both his bachelor&rsquo;s and master&rsquo;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 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/nyregion/alexander-garvin-dead.html" target="_blank">for a brief period of time</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>Garvin was behind some of the biggest urban planning projects in recent American memory. His noteworthy contributions to the county&rsquo;s largest cities included the post-<a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/1826239/9-11" target="_blank">9/11</a> master plan for the World Trade Center site in Manhattan and the BeltLine development in Atlanta.&nbsp;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d7/d7a77405cc1c247a830fa0cd72740d76.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d7/d7a77405cc1c247a830fa0cd72740d76.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Related on Archinect: <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150280901/after-9-11-a-tale-of-two-cities-eight-architects-on-the-changes-new-york-has-undergone-in-the-past-twenty-years" target="_blank">After 9/11, a Tale of Two Cities: Eight Architects on the Changes New York Has Undergone in the Past Twenty Years</a></figcaption></figure><p>Garvin was also in charge of the development of New York&rsquo;s unsuccessful b...</p>