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  1. Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden (née Mortimer; born January 18, 1944) is an American businesswoman who is a principal at Bloomberg Associates, an international consulting service founded by Michael Bloomberg as a philanthropic venture to help city governments improve the quality of life of their citizens.

  2. Apr 20, 2010 · New York City power broker Amanda Burden is sometimes labeled a socialite. Try re-zoning czar, waste-management expert, or birdcall imitator instead.

  3. Amanda Burden is a former New York City Planning Commissioner who led the revitalization of the High Line, the Brooklyn waterfront and other public spaces. She is also a founding Principal of Bloomberg Associates, a global consultancy, and a TED speaker who shares her vision for cities.

  4. Amanda Burden served as the New York City Planning Commissioner from 2002 to 2013 and is a Principal at Bloomberg Associates.

  5. Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city’s newest public spaces, drawing on her experience as, surprisingly, an animal behaviorist. She shares the unexpected challenges of planning parks people love -- and why it's important.

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  6. May 27, 2012 · Since 2002, when she was appointed to head City Planning, she has overseen the wholesale rezoning of the city, with 115 rezoning plans covering more than 10,300 blocks; by the end of...

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  8. More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it's the city's great public spaces -- from tiny p...

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