Tom Wright is the Executive Director of Regional Plan Association (RPA), the nation's oldest private regional planning organization. Projects he has directed include the Draft Vision Plan for the City of Newark (2006) and A Region at Risk: The Third Regional Plan for the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Metropolitan Area (1996). He participated in planning and organizing "Listening to the City," the historic electronic town hall forum on the World Trade Center site held in July, 2002 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Mr. Wright manages a staff of 35, oversees budgeting and fiscal planning for a $6 million organization, and coordinates a 60-member Board of Directors.
Mr. Wright lectures widely on growth management and regional planning. He is a Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; and the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture. He has served a resource team member for the Governors Institute on Community Design.
Previously, he was the Deputy Executive Director of the New Jersey Office of State Planning, where he coordinated adoption of the New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan (2001) and wrote the Executive Summary of the State Plan. From 1991 to 1993, he was Coordinator of the award-winning Mayors' Institute on City Design, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tom Wright received a Bachelor of Arts in history and a certificate in American Studies from Princeton University and a Master of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia University, where he received a Kinne Fellowship and AICP Award. He is a member of the Forum for Urban Design and the Board of Directors of the Riverside South Planning Corporation and the Arts Council of Princeton. He resides in Princeton, NJ with his wife, Cameron Manning, and three daughters.
Mr. Wright lectures widely on growth management and regional planning. He is a Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; and the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture. He has served a resource team member for the Governors Institute on Community Design.
Previously, he was the Deputy Executive Director of the New Jersey Office of State Planning, where he coordinated adoption of the New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan (2001) and wrote the Executive Summary of the State Plan. From 1991 to 1993, he was Coordinator of the award-winning Mayors' Institute on City Design, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tom Wright received a Bachelor of Arts in history and a certificate in American Studies from Princeton University and a Master of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia University, where he received a Kinne Fellowship and AICP Award. He is a member of the Forum for Urban Design and the Board of Directors of the Riverside South Planning Corporation and the Arts Council of Princeton. He resides in Princeton, NJ with his wife, Cameron Manning, and three daughters.
Publications
- 2006.10.18: A Vision for Newark
- 1996.05.01: Third Regional Plan Summary
