Ron Shiffman is a city planner with over 50 years of experience providing architectural, development and planning assistance to low/moderate-income neighborhoods. In 1964, Ron Shiffman co-founded the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development [PICCED], the oldest continuously operated university-based community design and development center in the United States.
Ron Shiffman is the recipient of numerous awards from community-based and national advocacy organizations. In 2012 he received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Jane Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2013 the American Planning Association’s National Planning Pioneer Award—one of the most prestigious awards given by the APA.
He is a tenured professor at Pratt Institute’s where he chaired the Planning Program [1991-1999]. He was appointed to the NYC Planning Commission by Mayor David Dinkins in 1991 and served until 1996. In 2003, he retired as Directors of the PICCED and as of June, 2014 he becomes Professor Emeritus at the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute.
Ron Shiffman is the recipient of numerous awards from community-based and national advocacy organizations. In 2012 he received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Jane Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2013 the American Planning Association’s National Planning Pioneer Award—one of the most prestigious awards given by the APA.
He is a tenured professor at Pratt Institute’s where he chaired the Planning Program [1991-1999]. He was appointed to the NYC Planning Commission by Mayor David Dinkins in 1991 and served until 1996. In 2003, he retired as Directors of the PICCED and as of June, 2014 he becomes Professor Emeritus at the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute.