Kate Ascher

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Kate Ascher is an author and was executive vice president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Her 2005 book, The Works: Anatomy of a City, [1] a textual and graphic exploration of how the complicated and often overlapping infrastructure of a modern city works, garnered wide discussion and praise when it was published. She left the NYCEDC in 2007 for Vornado Realty Trust. She formerly held positions with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and in corporate finance.

In the wake of the 2007 New York City steam explosion Ascher was quoted by several media outlets on the history and nature of utility steam use. "We are an older city with infrastructure that was sophisticated in its time," she told the New York Sun. "In any one of those systems, there is older pipe and newer pipe." [2]

Asher is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. [3]

Education

Ascher received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in government from the London School of Economics and her B.A. in political science from Brown University.

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References

  1. Ascher, Kate (2005). The Works: Anatomy of a City. Penguin Press. ISBN   978-1-59420-071-7.
  2. Hope, Bradley (2007-07-20), "Blast Highlights Dicey Infrastructure", The New York Sun , archived from the original on 2007-09-29
  3. Asher, Kate (May 10, 2018). "Faculty of GSAPP". arch.columbia.edu.