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Philip Mark Plotch is an author, professor, and urban planner. He is an assistant professor of political science and the director of the master of public administration program at Saint Peter's University.

Dr. Plotch has written articles and op-eds for the Journal of Planning History, Journal of Planning Literature, The Atlantic, The Record, Star Ledger, Newsday, Journal News and other publications. Plotch also writes a Gotham Gazette column (with the New York Institute of Technology's Nicholas Bloom) about economic development and transportation issues.

In 2015, Rutgers University Press published his book Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject.

Plotch received the American Planning Association’s 2015 New York Metro Chapter journalism award for his in-depth research and hard hitting analysis behind the planning and politics of New York's transportation system. Previous winners have included Kate Ascher, Brendan Gill, Paul Goldberger, Ken Jackson, and Elizabeth Kolbert. He is now under contract with Cornell University Press to write a book about the Second Avenue subway.

Between 2005 and 2014, as director of transportation policy and director of World Trade Center redevelopment and special projects at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Plotch developed new transportation programs, oversaw the design and construction of Lower Manhattan open spaces, and administered programs to rebuild structures destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Between 1992 and 2005, as the manager of policy and planning at the headquarters of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Plotch played a leading role in planning improvements to the New York metropolitan area's transportation system including the #7 subway line extension to the Hudson Yards, the Second Avenue subway, and intelligent transportation systems. Plotch also taught for more than seven years in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College.

Plotch received his master in urban planning degree from Hunter College and his Ph.D. in public and urban policy from the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at the New School. He lives in Radburn where he has published Fair Lawn News, served on the planning board and economic development committee, and led efforts to revise election procedures and improve pedestrian safety.