Raquel Ramati
Raquel Ramati, architect and urban designer, is president of Raquel Ramati Associates Inc. She has earned an international reputation as an urban designer and planner, first as the head of the Urban Design Group at the NYC Department of City Planning, and later as a private consultant working with developers, government agencies, not-for-profit organizations and community groups. Ramati designs master plans and acts as a development consultant for site selection, zoning analysis, design guidelines, processing, and architectural and open space planning. Internationally, Ramati has worked in Poland, India, Japan, Italy, and Israel and is the author of a signature planning book, How to Save Your Own Street, published by Doubleday. Ramati is presently an adjunct professor in the Real Estate Graduate Program at the Columbia University School of Architecture and at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate.