|
|
|  Adam Yagelski | Land Use
Degrees
Master's of Regional Planning | University at Albany, SUNY | Albany, NY | May 2012 Bachelor of Arts | Government, Biology minor | St. Lawrence University | Canton, NY | 2005
Experience
Party Cheif / Survey Technician | S.Y. Kim Land Surveyor, P.C. | September '08 to November '10 Carried out survey fieldwork on boundary, construction, topographic, and photogrammetric surveys for a variety of clients including landowners, developers, municipalities, and state agencies. Prepared site plan and other submissions for projects and designed stormwater control measures. Party Chief | Maser Consulting, P.A. | July '07 to July '08 Supervised survey fieldwork on a variety of projects in support of land development operations. Fieldwork included construction staking, wetland delineation, photo control, topographic/boundary, and deformation monitoring. Also developed and carried out field procedures for mapping and precise vertical positioning of over 800 stormwater outfalls in support of MS4 compliance. Planning/Research Interests Adam's planning interests broadly relate to the intersection of environment, policy, and social justice. He is interested in the study of the city as a "mirror" that reflects diverse socio-ecological practices and is particularly interested in water quality and water resources planning as issues that knit urban practices together. Having worked in land development consulting, he maintains an interest in and affinity for the practice of local or municipal planning. He is fascinated by alternative (or subaltern?) histories of planning, and he is motivated by the exploration of urban space as an important, more or less permanent feature of the uneven geographical developments of late capitalism.
Thesis/Research Paper Topic
Water quality planning represents an evolving area of study as well as an important contribution planning might make to the creation of more socio-ecologically sane mix of urban practices. Adam is interested in the relationship between policy, particularly federal policy, and local/metropolitan governance and planning contexts. He is particulary interested in how municipalities learn, devise, and implement innovative policies in the area of stormwater management and the role that planning plays in this process. He is also interested in exploring the watershed and its historical or policy antecedant, the metropolitan region, as spaces of representation--and as the domain of technical expertise as well as a site of contestation. An exploration of local stormwater policy, informed and motivated by concepts of the just city, will likely comprise his thesis.
| |
|
|