Tom Angotti is an author, editor, and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and he was the founder and director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development.

He has written and edited several titles, including Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, Revised Edition (New Village Press, 2023), co-edited with Sylvia Morse, Service Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries (New Village Press, 2011), co-edited with Cheryl Doble and Paula Horrigan, Transformative Planning: Radical Alternatives to Neoliberal Urbanism (Black Rose Books, 2019), and New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate (MIT Press, 2008), which won the Davidoff Book Award.