Manuel S. Emanuel, AICP

A native of New York City, Emanuel completed his undergraduate studies at New York University College of Engineering where he received a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree. He earned his Masters in Planning and Housing at Columbia University's School of Archictecture.

Early in his career, Emanuel was principal associate planning consultant with the firm of Frederick P. Clark and Associates in Rye, NY, where he prepared master plans and planning studies for communities in Westchester and Putnam Counties, NY, and in Connecticut. After leaving the Clark firm, he became the associate project manager on the consultant staff of the New York City Community Renewal Program and director of all community studies.

In 1964, Emanuel formed his own consulting firm that was located in Nyack-on-Hudson, NY. His firm served a diversified range of municipal and private clients, principally in the Northeast, and received nationwide recognition as innovators in community planning and land use management. The firm was consultant to the Town of Eden, NY, where it initiated a unique transfer of development rights program. For several years, the firm served as planning consultant to the Town of Ramapo, NY, and was instrumental in helping to develop the town's pioneering managed growth program. In the Town of North Salem and in the Village of Irvington in New York State, the firm developed new techniques for performance and resource protection zoning.

After closing his own firm, Emanuel served as special planning consultant to Kauker, Gregory, Kauker, LLC, Town Planning & Development Consultants in Wyckoff, NJ. He conducted environmental, land use and development studies for several municipalities in New Jersey and New York.

Emanuel has written several articles on growth management, community planning and transfer of development rights. He has lectured widely and appeared as a panelist at seminars sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute, the American Bar Association, American Planning Association, New York State Association of Towns, and the New York Planning Federation, among others.

In the educational field, Emanuel served as consultant on urban planning for a program sponsored by the Agency for International Development (U.S. State Department), supervising and coordinating the training of foreign students as professionals in planning. He also served as Adjunct Professor in Urban Planning and Growth Management at the College of Charleston, SC, where he organized and taught courses in those related fields in the Political Science Department.

Emanuel is a charter member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and American Planning Association. In public service, he served as chairman and member of local and county planning boards in New York State. During his consulting career, Emanuel received the Hugh R. Pomeroy Award from the New York State Planning Federation for his outstanding and innovative accomplishments in the planning and zoning fields.

Harriet R. Emanuel

Harriet is a graduate of the University of Colorado where she majored in advertising journalism. Her work experience covers the entire field of copy writing, editing and proofreading. Elected to the Theta Sigma Phi honorary organization for women in journalism, she is a graduate of the Publishing Laboratory Program at Sarah Lawrence College and has completed the Basic Design Course at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

A promotional copywriter at Addison-Wesley Longman, Oxford University Press and Kraus Thompson Organization, she wrote cover copy, press releases and brochure for reference works in the humanities and social sciences. She has also done research for various groups and has helped in the publicity of community and non-profit organizations.