Stephen Whitehouse

Biography: Stephen Whitehouse Partner Starr Whitehouse New York, NY Mr. Whitehouse is a partner of Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners in New York City. His diverse pursuits as a planner and designer over the last 30 years share a concern for the environmental quality and social vitality of places. His work on public and private multidisciplinary projects in the New York metropolitan area spans a continuum of policy development, planning, plan implementation, and landscape architectural design. As Chief of Planning for the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, he managed the expansion of the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows and launched the City’s Greenway system and Green Streets program. Mr. Whitehouse negotiated the creation and management of publicly-accessible space in private development, such as Riverside South, as well as the acquisition and creation of new public parks in the city’s redeveloping neighborhoods. His tenure helped establish the groundwork for major initiatives such as Hudson River Park, Manhattan’s West Side bike path, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the adaptive reuse of Governors Island. With Laura Starr he founded Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and planners in 2006, with a commitment to making urban density livable. Recent waterfront projects include the award-winning Bushwick Inlet Park on the East River in Williamsburg, and reuse studies for Hallets Cove in Queens and the Harlem River Promenade in the Bronx. Urban residential projects include an array of courtyards, entries and rooftop amenity spaces in market-rate and affordable multifamily and mixed-use projects. Economic development work includes the current Gowanus Canal Corridor Brownfield Opportunity Area, supporting existing and emerging manufacturing and industrial clusters. For the Downtown Alliance, Mr. Whitehouse directed the “Water Street: A New Vision” study, which has set policy and design direct