ALUMNI AT PRATT:
Ron Shiffman Ron Shiffman has been the consummate student, and professor at Pratt, since finishing his undergrad in architecture and then M.S. in City and Regional Planning in 1965. His work in the field of planning, which he began while still a graduate student, has taken him through indelible historic moments in the evolution of planning in New York City; from urban renewal to the rise of community planning, and the navigation of the politics of advocacy.
The documentation of the more than 50 years of this work, which we’ve all seen collected in the migrating stacks of file boxes in 406, has now been donated to the Brooklyn Historical Society, where it will be archived as part of history. In the following, he speaks to just a few of the experiences during his graduate studies that shaped the foundation for these years.
