Eran Ben-Joseph
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Chair PhD Committee
Room 10-485M
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
URL: http://web.mit.edu/ebj/www/
Email: ebj@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 253-7305
Current Research
Impact of standards codes and regulations on the built environment, Alternative patterns for development, Technological innovations in site planning, Urban simulations and the Tangible Infoscapes
Selected Publications
Against all Odds: MIT's Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture. 2007 (With Holly D. Ben-Joseph and Anne Dodge).
"Vehicular Circulation" in Landscape Architecture Graphic Standards Len Hopper Ed. NY: Wiley 2006.
Chinese Edition of Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities. (With Michael Southworth) Beijing: China Architecture and Building Press, 2006.
The Code of the City, MIT Press 2005
Innovating Regulations, Special Issue of the American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Urban Planning and Development. 2005
Indicators for Sustainable Urban Development, From Understanding to Action: Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Latin America. Marco Keiner, Christopher Zegras, Willy A. Schmid, and Diego Salmerón. Eds. NY: Kluwer Acaemic Publisher: (2005). (with Christopher Zegras, Ivan Poduje, and Whitney Foutz).
Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America. NY: Routledge, 2004. (Co-Edited with Terry S. Szold).
Bringing Clay and Sand into Digital Design: Continuous Tangible User Interfaces, BT Technology Journal Vol. 22 No. 4 October 2004. (With Hiroshi Ishii, Yao Wang, and Carlo Ratti).
The Future of Srandards and Rules in Shaping Place: Re-engineering the Urban Genetic Code, ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development. June 2004.
Double Standards, Single Goal: Private Communities and Design Innovation, Journal of Urban Design. Vol. 9. No. 2, 131-151, June 2004.
Infrastructure and the Path-Dependent City, Proceedings of the Resurgent City. London School of Economics 19-21 April 2004.
Facing Subdivision Regulations, in Regulationg Place: Standards and the Shaping in Urban America. NY: Routledge. Eran Ben-Joseph and Terry S. Szold Eds. (2004).
Reconsidering the cul-de-sac, Access Magazine of Transportation, June 2004 (with Michael Southworth).
Street and the Shaping of Towns and Cities. (With Michael Southworth) Washington DC: Island Press 2003.
Subdivision Regulations - Practices and Attitudes: A Survey of Public Officials and Developers in the Nation's Fastest Growing Single Family Housing Markets, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Working Paper WPO3EB1, 2003.
Recent Classes
11.304J Site and Urban Systems Studio Spring 10
11.360 Practicum: Community Growth and Land Use Planning Fall 09
11.967 Site and Urban Systems Studio- extra units Spring
Recent Awards
Sustainable Community Design and Residential Prototypes 2030-2050 - Sekisui House Japan
Boomer's Travel Behavior: Evidence from Developments for the Elderly - DOT
Community Influences on Health Behavior: Exploratory Study of Environmental Effects on Activity - NIH
IAWA Milka Bliznakov Prize
Additional Information
Founding principal of BNBJ (Blank & Ben Joseph) a multidisciplinary planning firm in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Recipient of the Japanese Ministry of Education (Mombusho) award for study and research in Japan. Worked for Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates, Tokyo, and as a Research Associate at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, and the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
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