Sessions
Zoning for Housing in NYC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Thu
Edith Hsu-Chen is the Executive Director of the New York City Department of City Planning. She started at DCP as an intern in 1997, and has held a number of positions at the agency, including Manhattan Director. Over her years at DCP, Hsu-Chen has always focused on improving neighborhoods as great places to live and modernizing New York’s most job intensive central business districts. She was appointed as Executive Director in 2022.
Hsu-Chen has a BA in Design of the Environment from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Urban Planning from Harvard University. Like so many of her fellow New Yorkers, Hsu-Chen is a first generation immigrant.