Ariel Krasnow
HDOD Project Manager

Ariel Krasnow is a registered architect and urban designer. Since 1998, she has been managing projects in Architecture, Planning & Development. From 2001 to 2008 Ms. Krasnow was the Development Architect for POP Development Corp., the housing office for Catholic Charities Brooklyn Queens. She initiated development and construction projects, coordinated public funding, and oversaw the design and construction of large scale capital improvements in multi-unit federally subsidized affordable housing buildings throughout Brooklyn and Queens. Prior to that, she worked at Project for Public Spaces, Inc. a non-profit institution dedicated to helping people implement community visions for public places, transportation-oriented growth, economic revitalization and traffic calming initiatives. As Project Designer she was involved in streetscape improvement projects in urban downtowns throughout the United States from initial community workshops through city and community approvals.

From 1997 to 2000, Ms. Krasnow was a yearly participant in an international workshop in Bosnia-Herzegovina to raise post-war urban planning and design issues related to the reconstruction and rebuilding of the city of Mostar.  She has taught Urban Design and Architecture at Parsons School of Design in NY, as well as in public elementary schools in the NYC Department of Education, through AIA:Learning by Design and the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment. 

From 2001-2004, Ms. Krasnow collaborated with an artist on "Variable City:Fox Square", a site specific performance and exhibition, which integrated urban design and planning with the arts. The project investigated how people observe, inhabit and transform public space; alerting local pedestrians to imminent development changes in their neighborhood and the hidden roles of history and planning in their future.

Ariel received an M.S. in Urban Design & Architecture from Columbia University and a Master of Architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She majored in Urban Design at New York University where she received her Bachelor's degree.