Burden, Amanda
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Name (Latin)
Burden, Amanda
Other forms of name
Burden, Amanda M., 1944-
Mortimer, Amanda Jay, 1944-
Date of birth
1944-01-18
Occupation
City planners
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
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Sources of Information
- Painting Central Park, 2015:title page (foreword by Amanda M. Burden) jacket (Amanda M. Burden, formerly New York City Planning Commissioner, is a principal at Bloomberg Associates)
- Wikipedia, July 8, 2016(Amanda Burden; Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden (born 1944) is a Principal at Bloomberg Associates, an international consulting service founded by Michael Bloomberg as a philanthropic venture to help city governments improve the quality of life of their citizens; she was the director of the New York City Department of City Planning and Chair of the City Planning Commission under Mayor Michael Bloomberg from 2002 to 2013; Burden previously worked for the New York State Urban Development Corporation; from 1983 until 1990 she was Vice President for Planning and Design of the Battery Park City Authority; born Amanda Jay Mortimer, she is the daughter of socialite Babe Paley (1915-1978) and her first husband, Stanley Grafton Mortimer, Jr. (1913-1999), an heir to the Standard Oil fortune; she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976, with a concentration in Environmental Science; she later earned a Master of Urban Planning from Columbia University, writing an award-winning thesis about solid-waste management; Burden has been married twice; her first husband was Carter Burden, Jr. (1941-1996), a multimillionaire descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt and a great-nephew of the actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; her second husband was Steven J. Ross (1927-1992), the head of Warner Communications)
- nuc87-44544: Greenacre Park, 1977(hdg. on MH-SD rept.: Burden, Amanda; usage: Amanda Burden)
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Wikipedia description:
Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden (née Mortimer) is an American urban planner who is a Principal at Bloomberg Associates, an international consulting service founded by Michael Bloomberg as a philanthropic venture to help city governments improve the quality of lives of their citizens. She was the Director of the New York City Department of City Planning and Chair of the City Planning Commission under Mayor Bloomberg from 2002 to 2013. Burden previously worked for the New York State Urban Development Corporation. She worked on Battery Park City from 1983 to 1990. She is also a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1996.
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