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Peter M. Wolf is an American author, land planning and urban policy authority, investment manager, and philanthropist. He lives in New York City.

Early Biography

Peter Michael Wolf, a sixth-generation member of the Godchaux-Weis family, was born in New Orleans.^[1] He is the author of several books, including the memoir, My New Orleans, Gone Away – A Memoir of Loss and Renewal. Wolf attended Metairie Park Country Day School, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale University (BA), Tulane University (MA), and New York University Institute of Fine Arts (PhD). At Yale, he was elected to the Manuscript Society and the Elizabethan Club, and served as a board member and the publicity manager of the Yale Daily News.^[2] During his graduate studies, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Paris. His doctoral dissertation was published internationally in 1968, Eugène Hénard and the Beginning of Urbanism in Paris 1900–1914. In 1969, it became the basis for a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.^[3]

Wolf has been awarded grants for his writing and scholarship by the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the National Research and Education Trust Fund. He has twice been a visiting artist/scholar at the American Academy in Rome.^[4]

Wolf's career in urbanism began at Wilbur Smith Associates, where he engaged in land planning focused on transportation. He began teaching urbanism as an adjunct professor at the School of Architecture at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1971, and continued in that role through 1987. Wolf also began working for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in 1971, participating in a number of research initiatives, including: "The Street as a Component of the Urban Environment" (co-director with architect Peter Eisenman, 1971–1973); "Low-Rise High-Density Prototype" (co-director with professor Kenneth Frampton, 1971–1973);^[5] and Union Square Redevelopment Program (director, 1972–1973). From 1972–1982 Wolf served as chairman of the IAUS Board of Fellows and as a trustee.

Between 1965 and 1990, Wolf authored numerous studies and articles related to land use and open space planning for the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Pan American World Airways, and private land owners across the US.^[6] His study, "Shaker Heritage Historic District," commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Shaker Central Trust Fund, and the Historical Society of the Town of Colonie, New York, was instrumental in saving the first Shaker settlement in America, a National Register of Historic Places property.^[7] In 1987, as the consultant to the Village of East Hampton, New York, he rewrote the East Hampton Village Residential Zoning Ordinance and, in 2002, he served as senior advisor to the Town of East Hampton Comprehensive Plan.^[8]

Between 1970 and 2007, as owner of Peter Wolf Associates, Wolf represented private land owners, institutions, corporations, and communities in land use studies and land investment management projects.

Recent Biography

Between 2008 and 2015, Peter Wolf Associates served as an investment manager on behalf of individuals, trusts, pension plans, and estates.

In 2010, Wolf founded and served as the chairman of the Thomas Moran Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to the restoration of the Thomas Moran House, the studio house and gardens of painter Thomas Moran and printmaker Mary Nimmo Moran, a National Historic Property. In 2012, he was appointed to the Advisory Committee of the Quiet Skies Coalition, a group that seeks to preserve the well-being of communities on the easternmost reaches of Long Island suffering from noise pollution created by increasing air traffic.

Wolf's memoir, My New Orleans, Gone Away, was published by Delphinium Books in 2013.^[9] The book, which reached the New York Times e-book best seller list in 2016, celebrates New Orleans and explores the issue of growing up as a Jew in the South.^[10]

Public Service

Wolf has been elected to serve on the New York Cultural Council, the Executive Committee of the Architectural League of New York, and the Advisory Board of the National Academy of Design. He also served as chairman of the Van Alen Institute in New York, New York, and as a trustee of Guild Hall and the Village Preservation Society, both in East Hampton. Wolf currently serves as a trustee of One to World, a program for Fulbright Fellows and other foreign students in the greater New York area.^[11] He was appointed to the New York State Advisory Board of The Trust for Public Land. In East Hampton he served as a Town-appointed member of the Airport Planning Committee, Noise Subcommittee.^[12]

Bibliography

Books

Selected Articles and Essays

Exhibitions

References

1. ^See Weis, 1908; Godchaux, 1971; Westerbrook, 2001.
2. ^1957 Class Book, Yale Banner Publications.
3. ^Museum of Modern Art, press release for the exhibition, Urban Anticipations: Eugène Hénard, 1849–1923, July 31, 1969. [https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/4324/releases/MOMA_1969_July-December_0017_106.pdf?2010]
4. ^Roster of Residents, Visiting Artists & Scholars, May 2001 and June 2012, records of the American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
5. ^Policy and Design for Housing: Lessons of the Urban Development Corporation 1968–1975.
6. ^See Kempner Study, 1969; Sugarland Industries Study, 1970; HUD Study, 1971; Pan American Study, 1971; Lower Midtown Manhattan Study, 1972; Watervliet-Shaker Study, 1973.
7. ^"Shaker Heritage Historic District: South Family Property, Design and Implementation Program," 1973.
8. ^See East Hampton Zoning Study; and East Hampton Comprehensive Plan .
9. ^Delphinium Books website, page for My New Orleans {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204093415/http://delphiniumbooks.com/myneworleans.html |date=2015-02-04 }}
10. ^See Yardley, "Rising above Bias in the Big Easy" [https://web.archive.org/web/20160601003918/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-34867358.html]; see Groom, "The Place He Was Once From." [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323740804578599481709432350]
11. ^One to World website: "Fulbrighters: Conversations With World Leaders." {{cite web |url=https://www.one-to-world.org/content/view/143/218/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-05-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528181925/https://www.one-to-world.org/content/view/143/218/ |archivedate=2015-05-28 |df= }}
12. ^"Packed Hearing on Airport Noise."
13. ^{{cite book|author1=Peter M. Wolf|author2=International Federation for Housing and Planning|author3=Centre de recherche d'urbanisme|title=Eugène Hénard and the beginning of urbanism in Paris, 1900-1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3LEtAQAAIAAJ|year=1968|publisher=International Federation for Housing and Planning}}
14. ^Internet Archive page on Another Chance for Cities; Some Approaches to Architecture, Technology, and Town Planning: The Current Program of the New York State Urban Development Corporation. [https://archive.org/details/anotherchance00wolf ], accessed May 4, 2015
15. ^{{cite book|author1=Peter M. Wolf|author2=New York State Urban Development Corporation|author3=Whitney Museum of American Art|title=Another chance for cities: some approaches to architecture, technology, and town planning: the current program of the New York State Urban Development Corporation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3tTuAAAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art}}
16. ^{{cite book|author1=Ulrich Franzen|author2=Paul Rudolph|author3=Peter M. Wolf|title=The Evolving City: Urban Design Proposals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DqFCAAAAIAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Whitney Library of Design}}
17. ^{{cite book|author=Peter M. Wolf|title=The future of the city|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S631oAEACAAJ|year=1974}}
18. ^{{cite book|author=Peter M. Wolf|title=Land in America: its value, use, and control|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8InxrHUqFkC|date=12 June 1981|publisher=Pantheon Books|isbn=978-0-394-50437-7}}
19. ^{{cite book|author=Peter Wolf|title=Hot Towns: The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zERIJ2vRChQC&pg=PA288|date=1 August 2001|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-3043-7|pages=288–}}
20. ^{{cite book|author=Peter M. Wolf|title=Land Use and Abuse in America: A Call to Action|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMo3gY2kkh4C|date=31 August 2010|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-4535-5294-0}} (self-published)
21. ^{{cite book|author=Peter M. Wolf|title=My New Orleans, Gone Away: A Memoir of Loss and Renewal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZtaR0kivdEC|date=9 July 2013|publisher=Delphinium Books|isbn=978-1-4804-1345-0}}
22. ^OCLC WorldCat website: "IAUS publications and content."
23. ^Museum of Modern Art, press release for the exhibition, Another Chance for Housing, Low-Rise Alternatives, June 12, 1973.