Carter Craft
Carter Craft is a waterfront planner and licensed Captain working in the private sector. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Planning and the Environment at the Pratt Institute where he teaches the summer Waterfront Seminar. For more than a decade, he has been involved with a wide range of civic and community groups working to revitalize the waterfront including the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, the Manhattan Island Foundation, the Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse, and the New York Harbor School.
Waterfront planner Carter Craft offers a preview of what to expect, and what to look for, when MoMA's new design show, Rising Currents, opens next week. The exhibition will display the design schemes of five interdisciplinary teams, charged with re-envisioning "the coastlines of New York and New Jersey around New York Harbor and… 
The energy revolution in the waterways is only beginning. Locally, the currents along this stretch of the East River make it a logical place to start. Looking ahead, I think we need to be careful about a few things...
