The peripatetic Andy Altman

I still don't know how I feel about Andy Altman, the one time DC planning director. He was good, but I found that as I started to learn more and know more about planning, that he wasn't as "good" as I thought, and that a bunch of his ideas weren't all that great.

So he left in 2005 the DC Office of Planning to run for a lot more money the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, a nonprofit development corporation coordinating revitalization along the Anacostia River in DC, but he didn't stay there too long before ending up working for a private firm in New York City, which he left after not too long in December 2007 to become the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development in Philadelphia, which he just left to become director of post-Olympics revitalization planning in London.