2010 Presenters
Tony Hiss
Tony Hiss, an independent author, lecturer, and consultant on restoring America’s cities and landscapes, became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1963, and for the past 16 years has been a Visiting Scholar at New York University, first at the Taub Urban Research Center and more recently at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He has been a Regents Lecturer at the University of California in Berkeley and Davis, a Scholar-in-Residence at the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University in 1999, and a Senior Fellow of the CUNY Institute for Urban Systems (CIUS). Hiss is the author of thirteen books, including the award-winning The Experience of Place and H2O: Highlands to Ocean (with Christopher Meier), an introduction to the vast landscape and waterscape that supports the New York City area, as well as The View from Alger’s Window: A Son’s Memoir, a New York Times Notable Book. His most recent work, In Motion, explores the range of awareness that travel makes available, with particular emphasis on travel’s extraordinary hidden dimension – the wide-awake, fully alert sense he calls Deep Travel.
LINKS:
Profile of Hiss in Projects for Public Spaces
Archived articles written by Hiss in the New Yorker
Review of his famous memoir, The View From Alger's Window, in The New York Observer
