Faculty

Lawrence Vale
Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning

Room 10-497M
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139

Email: ljvale@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 253-0561

Current Research

• Urban Design and Development with specific attention to:
  • Government-sponsored environments including city design and public housing;
  • Disaster Recovery

Selected Publications

Books

• Architecture, Power, and National Identity, 2nd Edition (New York and London: Routledge, April 2008).
• The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster, ed., with Thomas J. Campanella (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
• Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods (Harvard University Press, 2002).
• Imaging the City: Continuing Struggles and New Directions, ed., with Sam Bass Warner, Jr. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research Press, Rutgers University, November 2001).
• From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors (Harvard University Press, October 2000; 2007).
• Architecture, Power, and National Identity (Yale University Press, 1992)
• The Limits of Civil Defence in the USA, Switzerland, Britain and the Soviet Union: The Evolution of Policies Since 1945 (London, Macmillan and New York, St. Martin's Press, 1987).

Monographs

• Changing Cities: 75 Years of Planning Better Futures at MIT (MIT School of Architecture + Planning Press, April 2008).

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

• "The Ideological Origins of Affordable Home Ownership Efforts," in William Rohe and Harry Watson, eds. This House is Home (Cornell University Press, 2007); with Chinese translation published in Urban Planning International, 2007.
• "Restoring Urban Viability," in Eugenie Birch and Susan Wachter, eds., Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).
• "Comment on Mark L. Joseph's 'Is Mixed-Income Development an Antidote to Urban Poverty?'," Housing Policy Debate 17, 2 (2006), pp. 259-269.
• "The Urban Design of 20th Century Capitals," in David Gordon, ed., Planning Twentieth-Century Capital Cities (London: Routledge, 2006).
• "Review Roundtable: Is New Orleans a Resilient City?," Journal of the American Planning Association 72, 2 (2006) pp. 245-257.
• "The City Shall Rise Again: Urban Resilience in the Wake of Disaster," (With Thomas J. Campanella), Chronicle Review, January 2005.
• "The City Shall Rise Again: Urban Resilience in the Wake of Disaster," (With Thomas J. Campanella), IEEE Engineering Management Review 33, 3 (3rd quarter, 2005), pp. 3-7.
• "Are Cities Resilient?: New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina," The Optimist, Winter 2005-2006.
• "Securing Public Space," Places 17 (3), fall 2005.
• "Symbolic Settlements: The American Ideological Tension Between Private Homes and Public Housing," in Tony Atkin and Joseph Rykwert, eds., Structure and Meaning in Human Settlements (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology, 2005).
• "Standardizing Public Housing," in Eran Ben-Joseph and Terry Szold, eds., Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America (New York: Routledge, 2005).
• "Introduction: 'The Cities Rise Again,'" (with Thomas J. Campanella) in Vale and Campanella, eds., The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
• "Axioms of Resilience," (with Thomas J. Campanella) in Vale and Campanella, eds., The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
• "The future of planned poverty: Redeveloping America's most distressed public housing projects," Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 14,1 (1999) pp. 13-31.
• "Comment on James E. Rosenbaum, Linda K. Stroh, and Cathy A. Flynn's 'Lake Parc Place: A Study of Mixed-Income Housing'," Housing Policy Debate 9, 4 (1998), pp. 749-756.
• "Public Housing and the American Dream: Residents' Views on Buying into 'The Projects'," Housing Policy Debate 9, 2 (1998), pp. 267-298.
• "Empathological Places: Residents' Ambivalence toward Remaining in Public Housing," Journal of Planning Education and Research 16, 3 (1997) pp. 159-175.
• "Public Housing Redevelopment: Seven Kinds of Success," Housing Policy Debate 7, 3 (1996) pp. 491-534.
• "Beyond the Problem Projects Paradigm: Defining and Revitalizing 'Severely Distressed' Public Housing," Housing Policy Debate 4, 2 (1993) pp. 147-174.

Recent Classes

11.234 Making Sense: Qualitative Methods for Designers and Planners Spring
11.302J Urban Design Politics Spring 10

Recent Awards

• MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning Students' Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life, 2008
• Paul Davidoff Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning for Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods, 2005.
• "Top Ten Book of 2005," The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster, chosen by Planetizen, the Planning and Development network.
• John M. Corcoran Award for Community Investment, given for "Excellence in Housing Education" by the Commonwealth Tenants Association, 2004; also accompanied by citations from the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Senate.
• "Best Book in Urban Affairs" (published in 1999 or 2000), for From the Puritans to the Projects, Urban Affairs Association, 2001.
• "Place Research" Award from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) and Places, for research on public housing, 2000.
• Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellowship, for excellence in teaching, 1999-2008.
• MIT Provost's Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Grant, 1999-2000.
• Chester Rapkin Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning for Best Professional Paper, 1997.
• Guggenheim Fellowship for work on American public housing, 1995-96.
• Graham Foundation Grant for work on American public housing, 1995-96.
• Spiro Kostof Book Award in Architecture and Urbanism, conferred by the Society of Architectural Historians, for Architecture, Power, and National Identity, judged to be "the best work published in the last two years contributing to our understanding of the physical environment," 1994.

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