LI planner not sold on 'Better Burb' contest
Quick ReadA veteran of planning for Long Island has his doubts about what a contest to create a better suburb could produce.
Photo credit: Joseph D. Sullivan | Lee Koppelman, former head of the Long Island Regional Planning Board, now a professor of public policy and director of the center for Regional Policy Studies at Stony Brook University. (February 2010)
We asked Lee Koppelman, Long Island's veteran master planner, what he thought of the "Build a Better Burb" contest, announced last week by the Long Island Index in an effort to come up with ideas from planners, architects and others for reimagining and reinvigorating Long Island's downtowns.
It doesn't look like Koppelman, director of the Center for Regional Policy Studies at Stony Brook University...
