Burden, Amanda

LC control no.	n 87830992
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Burden, Amanda *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Mortimer, Amanda Jay, 1944- Burden, Amanda M., 1944-
Birth date	1944
Affiliation	New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission New York State Urban Development Corporation Battery Park City Authority
Profession or occupation	City planners
Found in	nuc87-44544: Greenacre Park, 1977 (hdg. on MH-SD rept.: Burden, Amanda; usage: Amanda Burden) Painting Central Park, 2015: title page (foreword by Amanda M. Burden) jacket (Amanda M. Burden, formerly New York City Planning Commissioner, is a principal at Bloomberg Associates) Wikipedia, July 8, 2016 (Amanda Burden; Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden (born 1944) is a Principal at Bloomberg Associates, an international consulting service founded by Michael Bloomberg as a philanthropic venture to help city governments improve the quality of life of their citizens; she was the director of the New York City Department of City Planning and Chair of the City Planning Commission under Mayor Michael Bloomberg from 2002 to 2013; Burden previously worked for the New York State Urban Development Corporation; from 1983 until 1990 she was Vice President for Planning and Design of the Battery Park City Authority; born Amanda Jay Mortimer, she is the daughter of socialite Babe Paley (1915-1978) and her first husband, Stanley Grafton Mortimer, Jr. (1913-1999), an heir to the Standard Oil fortune; she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976, with a concentration in Environmental Science; she later earned a Master of Urban Planning from Columbia University, writing an award-winning thesis about solid-waste management; Burden has been married twice; her first husband was Carter Burden, Jr. (1941-1996), a multimillionaire descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt and a great-nephew of the actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; her second husband was Steven J. Ross (1927-1992), the head of Warner Communications)
Associated language	eng