Kate Ascher

Kate Ascher is an author and was excecutive vice president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Her 2005 book, "The Works: Anatomy of a City", a textual and graphic exploration of how the complicated and often overlapping infrastructure of a modern city works, garnered wide discussion and praise when it was published. She left the NYCEDC in 2007 for Vornado Realty Trust.

In the wake of the 2007 New York City steam explosion Ascher was quoted by several media outlets on the history and nature of utility steam use. "We are an older city with infrastructure that was sophisticated in its time," she told the New York Sun. "In any one of those systems, there is older pipe and newer pipe." [Citation
last =Hope
first =Bradley
author-link =
title =Blast Highlights Dicey Infrastructure
newspaper =The New York Sun
year =2007
date =2007-07-20
url = http://www.nysun.com/article/58785] Ascher received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in government from the London School of Economics and her B.A. in political science from Brown University. She formerly held positions with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and in corporate finance.

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